"There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic."

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Source : "The Thirteenth Tale". Book by Diane Setterfield, 2006.

Diane Setterfield

#Moving Quotes #Writing Quotes #Blood Quotes

“The year I married my American husband, I won the lottery - and I tried to give it to somebody else, because I was already approved - not the money lottery, the immigration lottery.”

Source : Interview with Samantha Bee, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2016.
“Every fight I mature. I'm getting older. I'm maturing as a man. I'm maturing more inside the ring, but at the end of the day I'm still Adrien Broner. I'm still that kid who's living his dream and I'm just having fun.”
“Do wars support the military-industrial complex and therefore support the people?”
“Nothing is absolute any longer. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not to choose then there is no truth at all. There are only points of view.”

Source : Mordecai Richler (1955). “Son of a smaller hero: a novel”
“Take away, O Lord, the veil of my heart while I read the Scriptures.”

Source : Lancelot Andrewes (1861). “The Devotions of Bishop Andrewes: Translated from the Greek and Arranged Anew”
“Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.”
“Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge!”
“Nothing drives me more than to, hopefully, be able to hand (Steelers chairman Dan Rooney) that fifth (Vince Lombardi) trophy. If I can do that, then I would think, that when he brought me here, I finally accomplished what he wanted me to do.”

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