"To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another."

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Source : Katherine Paterson (2009). “Jacob Have I Loved”, Scholastic Incorporated

Katherine Paterson

#Inspirational Quotes #Fear Quotes #Swings Quotes

“Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.”

Source : "Accelerated Learning in Practice". Book by Alistair Smith, p. 234, 1998.
“The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.”
“there was a beautiful princess with a prince kissing her lips only the prince was totally ugly”
“Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val”
“I was arrested and put in murder's row. They were trying to get me for some murders I didn't do. They had me in a cell next to Charles Manson; he was going to trial at the time. And it was all a row of black and brown guys and one white guy: Charles Manson.”

Source : Source: bluemesareview.org
“The women we really love are the women who complete us, who have the qualities we can borrow and so become something nearer to whole men. Just as we complete them, of course; itâ€™s not a one-way thing. Leola and I, when romance was stripped away, were too much alike; our strengths and weaknesses were too nearly the same. Together we would have doubled our gains and our losses, but that isnâ€™t what love is.”
“I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore.”
“Every morning the cuisinier must start again at zero, with nothing on the stove. That is what real cuisine is all about.”

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