"I guess there was a war going on somewhere in the world that night but it wasn't one that could touch us."

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Source : "How I Live Now". Book by Meg Rosoff, 2004.

Meg Rosoff

#War Quotes #Night Quotes #World Quotes

“That's when you know you really fit with someone - when you can just sit there and not do anything. Kind of ignoring each other.”
“An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.”
“India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.”
“The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous, but property owned by primitive Gods and incompetent governments.”
“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”

Source : Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.103, A&C Black
“You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.”
“Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.”
“My mountain is dead. As soon as she has dried, I'll bury her under a decent layer of white paint. But I haven't done with the old lady; far from it!”

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