"The girl wondered: These policemen... didn't they have families, too? Didn't they have children? Children they went home to? How could they treat children this way? Were they told to do so, or did they act this way naturally? Were they in fact machines, not human beings? She looked closely at them. They seemed of flesh and bone. They were men. She couldn't understand."

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Source : Tatiana de Rosnay (2007). “Sarah's Key”, p.79, Macmillan

Tatiana de Rosnay

#Girl Quotes #Children Quotes #Home Quotes

“He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.”
“I've seen it personally that people have a natural sensibility to Arabic script. I don't know it if it's because of the shape, I don't know what it is in this script that makes it so universal. But even if you don't understand it, you still have this feeling; you can feel the piece of art in front of you.”

Source : Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.
“I have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see.”
“I am the master of my genes, not the victim of them.”
“There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion.”
“I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.”

Source : Jane Hamilton (2014). “The Book of Ruth”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The world is just going to continue to fragment, and that's a great thing.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of course. The framing of an image, by its very composition, represents a choice. The photographer chooses what to show and what to exclude.”

Source : Alexandra Kerry (2008). “Notes from the Trail: Presidential Politics from the Inside Out”, p.8, Rodale

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