"I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house."

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Source : Mary Stewart (2011). “Stormy Petrel”, p.44, Hachette UK

Mary Stewart

#Believe Quotes #People Quotes #House Quotes

“But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did.”

Source : Meg Wolitzer (2011). “The Uncoupling: A Novel”, p.21, Penguin
“I'm very hard to catch," says Rue. "And if they can't catch me, they can't kill me. So don't count me out.”
“The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.”
“My main goal was to not tell my mom anything or anyone anything. Even within our family, we like to do it ourselves, we like to be our own boss, and we don't like asking for help.”
“We have no proof, But if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we have to come to the conclusion that ... other life probably exists out there and perhaps in many places...”
“Not to make him blush, but any story illustrated by Mike Mignola does things that prose alone cant accomplish. The illustrations create mood and atmosphere, drawing the reader more deeply into the story than words could do on their own.”
“Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.”
“Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.”

Source : Stanley Kunitz, Kent P. Ljungquist (2013). “Conversations with Stanley Kunitz”, p.69, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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