"I had wanted to live forever as a gypsy girl; I had wanted to live forever as a child, tumbling down a rabbit hole. I had been granted both wishes, only to find immortality was not what it had promised to be; instead of a passport to the future, it was a yoke that bound me to the past."

-- Melanie Benjamin

#Girl Quotes #Children Quotes #Past Quotes

“My husband was getting his sea legs-rereading Joseph Conrad with a side order of C S Forester.”
“The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in value to the bounty of July.”
“The man who walks alone is soon trailed by the F.B.I.”

Source : Wright Morris (1968). “A Bill of Rites, a Bill of Wrongs, a Bill of Goods”, [New York] : New American Library
“Most people do not go to the dentist until they have a toothache; most societies do not reform abuses until the victims begin to make life uncomfortable for others.”

Source : Charles Philip Issawi (1991). “Issawi's laws of social motion”, Darwin Pr
“I trust you have seen the ocean. If you have, then you have witnessed the divine. How barren the ground is in comparison! If I could count the hours I have spent staring out at it! And yet those hours never feel lost. I cannot imagine how else I could refill them were I given a second chance.”
“I believe we have to put art back at the center of everyday life rather than allowing it to become a specialist activity at the margins of society.”
“Where did they get those screams, Katniss?”
“No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.”

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