"The library was a little old shaby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in. She liked the cmbined smell of worn leather bindings, library past and freshly inked stamping pads better than she liked the smell of burning incense at high mass."

-- Betty Smith

#Beautiful Quotes #Past Quotes #Doors Quotes

“My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.”
“It's terrifying to think you can remember things you shouldn't possibly be able to. It's like that childhood fear of having your soul slip from your body in your sleep. The darkness, those black sheets of glass sliding over you, upping the pressure, pushing you through the time and space and story.”

Source : Tim Winton (2011). “In the Winter Dark”, p.73, Pan Macmillan
“The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods.”
“Like the kind of voter who has been turned off to [Donald] Trump, who would normally vote Republican in an election like this, that`s who we`re talking about, can they get past - even if he comes to a position that`s more agreeable for them, a tone that`s more agreeable, can they get past the last year?”
“Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.”

Source : "Old England's Worthies". Book by C. Cox, p. 120, 1847.
“Every Morning You Have Two Choices: Continue To Sleep With Your Dreams, Or Wake Up and Chase Them.”
“In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.”
“At the time I wasn't really familiar with Caucasians and he got me up out of that 'cause they regular people just like everybody else.”

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