"Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea."

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Source : Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.156, Penguin

Kim Edwards

#Sea Quotes #World Quotes #Shallow Quotes

“The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'”
“I can pinpoint that as the single happiest moment of my life, because I realized then that Mom would always have my back. It made me feel giant. I raced back down the concrete ramp, faster than I ever had before, so fast I should have fallen, but I didn't fall, because Mom was in the world.”
“I have never sung a whole song on my own before and I am not the best dancer in the world, but I would rather try and fall than not not try at all.”
“Scratch a lover, and find a foe.”
“It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there has been so much disturbance, bloodshed and persecution. It is indeed a pity that even at the close of the twentieth century we've had to witness such atrocities because of religion. Flying the flag of religion has always proved the easiest way to crush to nothingness human beings as well as the spirit of humanity.”
“Sometimes I smoked opium. And I also took LSD - for a while, quite a lot of LSD, in fact. But I never had any bad experiences. I stopped in 1985. I'd had enough, and I don't miss it, either.”
“But one sound always rose above the clamor of busy life and, no matter how much of a tintinnabulation, was never confused and, fora moment lifted everything into an ordered sphere: that of the bells.”
“Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death”

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