"It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases."

-- Hilary Mantel

#Mother Quotes #Grandmother Quotes #Phases Quotes

“Okemah was one of the singingest, square dancingest, drinkingest, yellingest, preachingest, walkingest, talkingest, laughingest, cryingest, shootingest, fist fightingest, bleedingest, gamblingest, gun, club and razor carryingest of our ranch towns and farm towns, because it blossomed out into one of our first Oil Boom Towns.”
“I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.”
“One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.”
“Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids.”
“Even one hair has a shadow.”
“The guy who trains the hardest, the most, wins.”
“to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing”

Source : David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.240, Penguin
“Do you know why men name their cocks?" "No, why?" she asked, trying to stifle her laughter. "So most of the major decisions in their lives wonâ€™t be made by a total stranger.”

Source : Linda Howard (2009). “Night Moves: Dream Man/After the Night”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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