"Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them."

-- Scott Westerfeld

#Stories Quotes #World Quotes #Forests Quotes

“Memory. All alone in the moonlight I can smile at the old days I was beautiful then.”
“There are some books and characters so pleasant, or rather which contain so much that is pleasant, that criticism is perplexed or silent. The hounds are perpetually at fault among the sweet-scented herbs and flowers that grow at the base of Etna.”

Source : John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.154
“Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.”
“There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display.”
“Movies, TV, sports, come and go, but what you stand for is what people remember. Mandela, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy are people who really stood for something and were willing to die for it. You don't see a whole lot of that any more.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.”
“Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.”
“My trouble is I talk first and think later.”

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