"That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things."

-- Elizabeth Bowen

#Fiction Quotes

“I said you lie, knave!â€ shouted Beaumains, drawing his sword. â€œAnd for telling such craven falsehoods, you must die!â€ The knight looked plaintively at Roger. â€œWhatâ€™s wrong with this fellow?â€ He was dropped on his head when he was a baby,â€ answered Roger.”
“I'm not good with time. Like, if I ask you the time and you say A quarter to 2, I wouldn't know. Why can't you just say 2:30?”
“To me, itâ€™s encounters that matter, pictures are much less important.”
“The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.”

Source : Said Nursi (1995). “The Flashes Collection”, p.215, www.nurpublishers.com
“It's not about the journey. It's about the people you meet.”
“The evidence does look like this wasn't just a casual - world leaders don't just pick up the phone and call each other. It does appear that the Donald Trump phone call with the president of Taiwan was a deliberate move, a deliberately provocative move.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“It doesn't matter much what kind of house you've got as long as it's a happy home...”
“I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.”

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