"Charm is the true gift of the Fairies."

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Source : Charles Perrault, Sally Holmes (1993). “The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Charles Perrault

#Fairy Quotes #Charm Quotes

“But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.”

Source : Philip Gibbs (1946). “The Pageant of the Years: An Autobiography”
“Medical thinking usually sees stress as highly disturbing but isolated events such as, for example, sudden unemployment, a marriage breakup, or the death of a loved one. These major events are potent sources of stress for many, but there are chronic daily stresses in people's lives that are more insidious and more harmful in their long-term biological consequences. Internally generated stresses take their toll without in any way seeming out of the ordinary.”
“Running toward danger is foolhardy. ... But so is closing your eyes to it. Many perils become less dangerous once you understand their potential hazards.”

Source : Brandon Mull (2008). “Rise of the Evening Star”, p.130, Simon and Schuster
“The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to.”
“America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.”

Source : James Ellroy (2011). “American Tabloid: Underworld USA (1)”, p.3, Vintage
“I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?”
“Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.”
“My philosophy has always remained the same, it's about creating calm balanced environments based on Eastern cultures, ie order and creation of harmony. How people feel in a space is as important as the way it looks, one can't be without the other to succeed.”

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