"Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other, while the first snows of winter floated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silenced all trace of the world."

-- Anne Carson

#Winter Quotes #Eyelashes Quotes #Hands Quotes

“I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.”
“I believe that the existing power structures in Europe and Northeast Asia are not sustainable through 2020.”

Source : John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.402, W. W. Norton & Company
“I am not gone but merely walk within you.”
“All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.”
“We'd even devised the Buffy scale of life relationships: you start off wanting Xander, spend your twenties going out with Spike and setttle down with giles.”

Source : Jenny Colgan (2005). “The Boy I Loved Before: A Novel”, p.14, Macmillan
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.”
“An entrepreneur starts at square one and is not afraid to take chances to get to square one hundred and one”
“Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.”

Source : Eric Burns (1995). “The Joy of Books: Confessions of a Lifelong Reader”

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