"I didn't know you had a girlfriend, Griggs." Anson Choi feigns surprise. "What's her name?" "I didn't actually catch her name," Griggs continues. "Lily," Raffaela says over her shoulder and this time I give her a sideways look. "Great to know that I'm in love with a girl with a cool name." "It's Taylor's middle name," Raffaela calls back again."

-- Melina Marchetta

#Girl Quotes #Names Quotes #Giving Quotes

“History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.”
“Our training pushes us to develop a new set of instincts: instead of reacting to danger with a fight-or-flight adrenaline rush, we're trained to respond unemotionally by immediately prioritizing threats and methodically seeking to defuse them. We go from wanting to bolt for the exit to wanting to engage and understand what's going wrong, then fix it.”
“In the Sapient tongue he said softly, â€˜Tell me, Master, did you know Incarceron was tiny?â€™ â€˜Is it?â€™ Sapphique replied in the same language, his green eyes as he looked up lit by deep points of flame. â€˜To you, perhaps. Not to its Prisoners. Every prison is a universe for its inmates. And think, Jared Sapiens. Might not the Realm also be tiny, swinging from the watchchain of some being in a world even vaster?”
“My mother preferred trees to certain kinds of people. Increasingly, as I get older I have to admit that I occasionally understand her preference.”
“The british govt has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland ,never can have any right in Ireland”
“The most successful people in the world are people who were rejected more than anybody else.”
“Beginning of all knowledge comes from humility.”
“To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.”

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