"A young nurse, someone new whom he didn't recognise, came up to Henry and patted him on the arm. "Are you a friend or a family member?" She whispered the question in his ear, trying not to disturb Sheldon. The question hung there like a beautiful chord, ringing in the air. Henry was Chinese, Sheldon obviously wasn't. They looked nothing alike. Nothing at all. "I'm distant family," Henry said."

-- Jamie Ford

#Beautiful Quotes #Air Quotes #Nurse Quotes

“We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.”
“One of the benefits of a bad education is the constant pleasure of discovery.”
“Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.”
“The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The Grandest Feeling is that feeling which you call love.”
“Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him”
“Auspiciousness comes only through balance.”
“Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it.”

Source : Nigel Slater (2005). “The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater”, Gotham
“The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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