"It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows."

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Source : Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.109, Macmillan

Laurie Halse Anderson

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“What brothers say to tease their sisters has nothing to do with what they really think of them.”
“I have never been able to resist a book about books.”

Source : Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.139, Macmillan
“When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.”
“Free women and men everywhere must wage an incessant campaign so that these human values become a generally recognized and practised reality. We must regretfully admit that in various parts of the world this is not yet the case. Without those values and human rights the real peace of which we dream is jeopardized.”
“In the absence of fear there is little faith.”
“Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather, welcome to all.”
“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”
“I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing.”

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