"Still, even without the country or a lake, the summer was a fine thing, particularly when you were at the beginning of it, looking ahead into it. There would be months of beautifully long, empty days, and each other to play with, and the books from the library."

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Source : Edward Eager, N. M. Bodecker (1999). “Half Magic”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Edward Eager

#Summer Quotes #Country Quotes #Book Quotes

“The true test of liberty is the right to test it, the right to question it, the right to speak to my neighbors, to grab them by the shoulders and look into their eyes and ask, â€œAre we free?â€ I have thought that if we are free, the answer cannot hurt us. And if we are not free, must we not hear the answer?”

Source : Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.19, Macmillan
“There's a storm inside of us, a burning river, a drive. You push yourself further than anyone could think possible. You are never out of the fight.”
“You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand, but you play it. And I've played it.”
“sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.”
“When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.”
“When the desirable jobs are spending other people's money, reporting on spending other people's money and lobbying to spend other people's money then you know that the society is f***ed.”
“If, in fact, it is what's inside us that makes all the difference, then the difference is made when we choose what goes inside.”
“Unfortunately, I'm one of those idiots who knows everything about health and is in a constant state of alarm, and yet I continue to do everything I shouldn't do.”

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