"I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth."

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Source : Hisham Matar (2011). “Anatomy of a Disappearance”, p.13, Penguin UK

#Ribs Quotes #Pieces Quotes #Mouths Quotes

“There are plenty of Minutemen. People willing to be Minutemen. Where are the people that want to be George Washington? Where are the Benjamin Franklins? Where is Sam Adams? Where is John Adams?”
“The difference between FEELING yourself in action, here and now, and visualizing yourself in action, as though you were on a motion-picture screen, is the difference between success and failure.”
“School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.”
“I read the Bible every day.”
“I don't do Twitter, Facebook; none of that. My email I do from my Blackberry or my iPhone.”
“I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face.”
“From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live with one's passions, whether or not one can accept their law, which is to burn the heart they simultaneously exalt - that is the whole question.”
“Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.”

Source : Twitter post from May 30, 2017

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