"At New Year's he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal. He hopes she will use them to eat with, not to stick in people."

-- Hilary Mantel

#New Year Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Years Quotes

“Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everything on her that crawls and flies is dependent upon Her and all must hopelessly perish if that Earth dies that feeds us.”

Source : "Our Senseless Toil". Book by Viktor Schauberger, 1934.
“Indonesia isn't the most beautiful country in the world. I don't think so. Italy is much lovelier - and France too. It's a very problematic country. And that's why you have to stay here for the rest of your life. Indonesia is a process. It's not a finished idea. It's a practice, and a trial and error.”
“There's nothing cheap about loyalty.”
“Do good work. Don't worry about expressing yourself. Figure out what you do well and make it better.”
“I never want to position myself where I seem like an ambassador of anti-racism. I am fortunate enough to say that I've never experienced extreme amounts of racism, but a lot of my friends do.”
“I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.”

Source : Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel”, p.350, Dial Press
“Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that.”
“If you're looking for someone who can beat the RAW divas, perhaps you should choose someone who's beaten every diva on RAW.”

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