"I know I would crumble if I lost you."

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Source : Shannon Hale (2010). “Enna Burning”, p.41, Bloomsbury Publishing

Shannon Hale

#Romantic Quotes #Lost Quotes

“You've gotta be business savvy really, or else you get the piss taken out of you.”
“At least that's what his note said, along with a scathing reminder that dishes didn't wash themselves and the fungus in the bathroom was one day away from evolving into sentient life. I folded the note into an airplane and sailed it across the room. It ended up perched jauntily on top of the ancient television. It looked good there and I left it as a tribute to freedom-loving fungi everywhere.”

Source : Rob Thurman (2006). “Nightlife”, p.34, Penguin
“Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.”
“There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.”
“We tend to find what we look for in other people.”
“You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.”
“When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as twenty thousand feet below the seafloor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.”

Source : "Basin and Range". Book by John McPhee, 1981; reprinted in his book "Annals of the Former World", 1998.
“To show that there are natural processes that produce religious belief does nothing, so far, to discredit it; perhaps God designed us in such a way that it is by virtue of those processes that we come to have knowledge of him.”

Source : Alvin Plantinga (2000). “Warranted Christian Belief”, p.167, Oxford University Press

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