"Wayde yelled, and I hit him again, adrenaline pulling a scream of outrage from me. He went quiet, and I held my breath to make sure I could hear him breathing. I suppose I could have used my magic on him, but this was a lot more satisfying."

-- Kim Harrison

#Breathing Quotes #Magic Quotes #Quiet Quotes

“The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on a page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.”

Source : Neil Postman (2011). “Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education”, p.72, Vintage
“No more verbally incomprehensible no more devoid of the vision thing and no more the cautious pragmatist proudly displaying the virtues of tradition and the advantages of biological seniority.”
“You are born modern, you do not become so.”
“Offended self-love never forgives.”
“The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here; the duration of the transmission is insignificant; the photograph of the missing being, as Sontag says, will touch me like the delayed rays of a star.”
“It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.”
“Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.”
“Time burns but leaves no ashes.”

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