"Mrs. Murdo, walkind even more briskly to keep her spirits up, was crossing Harken Square when something fell to the pavement just in front of her with a terrific thump. How extraordinary, she thought, bending to pick it up. It was sort of a bundle. She began to untie it."

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Source : Jeanne DuPrau (2016). “The City of Ember Complete Series”, p.198, Random House Books for Young Readers

Jeanne DuPrau

#Squares Quotes #Pavement Quotes #Bending Quotes

“Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know.”
“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked higher than the pyramids; they had killed themselves over the failure to find a love none of us could ever be. In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.”
“Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.”
“Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].”
“I know that one day I would love to do a musical.”

Source : "‘Little White Lies’ Writer-Director Guillaume Canet on His Personal French Drama and Making the Upcoming ‘Blood Ties’ in the U.S." by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. August 22, 2012.
“FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.”
“I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.”

Source : "Interview with Laura Yorke". "Reader's Digest" Magazine, July 2006.
“I loathe hair salons. People have always told me I am in the wrong business because I can't stand getting my hair cut or having it messed around with. Hairdressers feel as if they've got to be your shrinks. I just want them to do my hair so I can get out of there.”

Source : "The close-up". Interview with Simon Chilvers, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2009.

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