"Summer comes over the hill like a hairy blanket."

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Source : Donna Jo Napoli (1995). “The Magic Circle”, p.8, Penguin

Donna Jo Napoli

#Summer Quotes #Hills Quotes #Over The Hill Quotes

“In places like South Afghanistan, where cultural norms prevent men from entering homes, female vaccinators often make the difference between a closed or opened door.”
“My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.”
“You don't throw your life away Going Inside You get to know who's watching you And besides you resides in your body”
“I think small animals can escape from many kinds of natural disaster more easily. There are just more places for them to hide, and more ways for them to find safe habitats. So this means that rats are set up to rule the Earth, but most of us already knew that. Now you know why.”
“I believe the default position in life is liberalism. You have to work at being a Conservative.”
“Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me in a dumpster, but since she didn't, I should 'off' myself.”

Source : Interview with Howard Kurtz, transcripts.cnn.com. October 5, 2008.
“Knowledge is not the same as morality, but we need to understand if we are to avoid past mistakes and move in productive directions. An important part of that understanding is knowing who we are and what we can do... Ultimately, we must synthesize our understandings for ourselves.”
“The tent in which she first met him had smelled of blood, of the death she did not understand, and still she had thought of it all as a game. She had promised him the world. His flesh in the flesh of his enemies. And much too late had she realized what he had sown in her. Love. Worst of all poisons.”

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