"He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves. It strikes him as unfair to not have the same fanciful opportunity himself. And he is not in the position to do any rescuing of his own."

-- Erin Morgenstern

#Girl Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Knights Quotes

“There's nothing there — get rid of that!”

Source : Joan Raphael-Leff (2001). “Pregnancy: The Inside Story”, p.22, Karnac Books
“You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own records, their own rules.”

Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.253, Macmillan
“If it's something that reaches out and grabs me, I want to do it. I have a lot of trouble doing things that don't grab me. So, I'm not a very good actor in that way. I can't fake it.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these.”

Source : Charles Stuart Calverley, “The Auld Wife”
“Jermaine Jenas is a fit lad. He gets from box to box in all of 90 minutes”
“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.”
“An army marches on its stomach.”
“I want to be the greatest player ever in my era.”

Source : Interview with Victor Kelly, www.ign.com. January 26, 2005.

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