"Helda's been trying to impress me with the embroidery on the sheets. One more minute and I thought I might use them to hang myself." "My mother did the embroidery," Bittterblue said. Katsa clapped her mouth shut and glared at Helda. "Thank you, Helda, for mentioning that detail."

-- Kristin Cashore

#Mother Quotes #Trying Quotes #Mouths Quotes

“Paradoxical as it may at first appear, the fact is that, as W. H. George has said, scientific research is an art, not a science.”
“Give someone responsibility and they will do their best. Make them accountable and they will do even better.”
“Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.”
“It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.”
“For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, and nor is any single thing within it. Stars consume themselves, the universe itself rushes apart, and we ourselves are composed of matter in constant flux. Colonies of cells in temporary alliance, replicating and decaying and housed within, an incandescent cloud of electrical impulse and precariously stacked carbon code memory. This is reality, this is self knowledge, and the perception of it will, of course, make you dizzy.”

Source : "Altered Carbon". Book by Richard Morgan, 2002.
“In a creative journey, it is essential, no matter how far one runs, to examine that which is closest to home.”
“I require distance from the past in order to grasp the future.”
“Some sacrifices are sound; the rest are mine”

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