"... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences."

-- George Eliot

#Rebellion Quotes #Defiance Quotes #Consequence Quotes

“To exaggerate is to weaken.”
“There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you've misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.”

Source : Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.264, Simon and Schuster
“We can do anything we want to as long as we give it everything we've got.”
“Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth.”
“When you're writing - when I'm writing anyway - I'm writing out of different kinds of preoccupations and obsessions, different forms of drivenness, and so you're really hostage those while writing. I am, anyway. And it's only when you finally take the finished thing out of the furnace that you see what it was that went into the making of the thing.”
“Before I knew what affliction meant, I was ready sometimes to wish for it”

Source : Mary Rowlandson (2014). “Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”, p.104, Diderot Publishing
“It is not “just beer,” it is a noble and ancient beverage which, like wine, food and television advertising, can be extraordinarily good or unmercifully bad.”
“In this case they're doctors. But having passion for your work and to take risks in order to better human kind. That's a pretty big theme. It's pretty inspiring.”

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