"The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in extraordinary shape-shifting prose that makes this not just an important novel, but a remarkable read."

-- Aminatta Forna

#Powerful Quotes #Important Quotes #Shifting Quotes

“I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.”
“Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.”
“I will walk heavy, and I will walk strange.”
“You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.”
“I enjoy jokes, smiling, and making people smile. I may be a little different, but that's OK, who wants to be normal anyway?”
“I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time had on you.”
“Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait.”

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