"Is it my fault if I do not look like an English girl and I do not talk like a Nigerian? Well, who says an English girl must have skin as pale as the clouds that float across her summers? Who says a Nigerian girl must speak in fallen English...?"

-- Chris Cleave

#Girl Quotes #Summer Quotes #Clouds Quotes

“I have been allowed to inhabit different shades of human nature and different colours of truth indifferent circumstances.”
“Oh for a book and a shady nook, Either indoors or out, with the green leaves whispering overhead, or the street cries all about. Where I may read at all my ease both of the new and old, For a jolly good book whereon to look is better to me than gold”
“America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.”
“Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action.”
“Even more then long hours in the kitchen, fine meals require ingenious organization and experience which is a pleasure to acquire.”
“Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a high regard for the value of each other's person.”
“The big downside to the global village that the Internet has created is that nothing has time to grow out of the public gaze and, even more dangerous, whatever your personal interests might be, there will always be someone somewhere to provide validation and encouragement.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.”

Source : Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like to Go to War”, p.193, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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