"I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out of all the books that there were to read in the library. I was keen on reading stuff that took me to other places."

-- Terry Pratchett

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Years Quotes

“People made suggestions, but, hell, I don't actually listen to anybody, I just go my own way.”
“I wish I'd known from the beginning that I was born a strong woman. What a difference it would have made! I wish I'd known that I was born a courageous woman; I've spent so much of my life cowering. How many conversations would I not only have started but finished if I had known I possessed a warrior's heart? I wish I'd known that I'd be born to take on the world; I wouldn't have run from it for so long, but run to it with open arms.”

Source : Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company
“Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.”
“Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.”
“I take a lot of inspiration from the people I work with, and having many collaborators keeps me challenged and inspired.”
“Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.”

Source : Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.150, Diversion Books
“Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires. From Plato to pinups, images of human beauty have catered to a limitless desire to see and imagine an ideal human form.”
“But what I could see out of the corner of my eye made me think of two lovely bundles of silk floating along a stream. In a moment they were hovering on the walkway in front of me, where they sank down and smoothed their kimono across their knees.”

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