"People talk about the beauty of the spring, but I can't see it. The trees are brown and bare, slimy with rain. Some are crawling with new purple hairs. And the buds are bulging like tumorous acne, and I can tell that something wet, and soft, and cold, and misshapen is about to be born. And I am turning into a vampire."

-- Matthew Tobin Anderson

#Spring Quotes #Rain Quotes #Hair Quotes

“That could be the issue that the party - that the party faces as we get ready to potentially nominate someone who`s utterly unelectable in a general election contest.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist.”
“Tranquility, allied to loneliness, possessed no charms.”
“Sunny is what you are. Everything else is what you think.”
“I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.”

Source : Simon Van Booy (2009). “Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories”, HarperCollins
“A child who had been introduced to misery in Saudi Arabia, a teenager who went to wage jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan, a deeply devout Muslim who had graduated with honors in medicine, a man who had fed a stranger to wild dogs in Damascus, a zealot who had dosed three foreigners with smallpox and watched them die in agony, gave thanks to Allah for the blessings that had been bestowed upon him.”

Source : Terry Hayes (2014). “I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller”, p.355, Simon and Schuster
“Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it.”

Source : Katharine Brush (1940). “This is on Me”, New York : Farrar & Rinehart
“it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.”

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