"It had struck me that the world was full of holes, holes which you could fall into, never to be seen again. I couldn't understand the difference between disappearance and death. Both seemed the same to me, both left holes. Holes in your heart holes in your life."

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Source : Sally Gardner (2013). “Maggot Moon Adult Edition”, p.22, Hot Key Books

Sally Gardner

#Fall Quotes #Heart Quotes #Differences Quotes

“Madison understood that if you want to protect rights from government abuse, you would be wise not to give government the power in the first place that can be used to abuse rights. That is a lesson we have forgotten. As we have asked government to do more and more for us, we have forgotten that a government big enough to give us everything we want will be powerful enough to take everything we have.”
“Do what you dream of doing and never lose sight of that”
“That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.”
“The fellows who amuze me are the Albanians. An Albanian on the mash is almost exactly like the medieval swells of the Italian frescoes & the first ones we met quite startled us. They wear the tight-fitting trunk hose made of woolen stuff hooked up the back of the leg. It is white with long black stripes of embroidery down the leg & at the top in front the shirt is pulled through slashes. They are long slim chaps with dandy little moustaches & are most theatrical in effect.”
“One of the glories of doing the book So You Want to Be President? was the shifts in tone, where I was able to be humorous and then very serious. And the impeachment page is certainly the best example of that. I didn't have to think too much about how to present this one. I got the idea right away that a good way of showing the shame of President Nixon would be to put him down in the shadows under the Lincoln Monument, with Lincoln sort of glaring down at him from an elevated, better-lit position.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.”
“If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.”
“We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.”

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