"He says he had to go help someone in a desperate situation. Who, exactly, he refuses to say. He doesnâ€™t know when heâ€™s going to be back, but suggests we put off the wedding for a few days. The rotter! How dare he just zoom off and not tell me where heâ€™s going, or who heâ€™s going to help, or what exactly heâ€™s up to!â€ Yeah, how dare he go out and be all heroic and stuff when you want him here slobbering over your big boobs."

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Source : Katie Macalister (2007). “Holy Smokes: An Aisling Grey, Guardian, Novel”, p.101, Penguin

Katie MacAlister

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“[The passage of the Sugar Act] set people a thinking, in six months, more than they had done in their whole lives before.”
“The dialogue between women is a rich field, but change does not come without a lot of reading, asking, listening, risk-taking and hard work.”
“I believe deeply that it's very important to the United States, to the economic health of the United States, that we maintain a strong dollar.”

Source : "Geithner: We Care About A Strong Dollar, Really" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. November 11, 2009.
“There is only one inborn erroneous notion that we exist in order to be happy So long as we persist in this inborn error the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of disappointment.”
“But in America, if you're an atheist, you lose.”
“Don't let your pride or a lack of courage stand in the way of saying you're sorry to people you may have offended.”

Source : Sean Covey (2011). “The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teenagers”, p.169, Simon and Schuster
“The idea that academics should remain ''above the fray'' only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.”
“[I]t is tragic that the forces for destruction that we unleashed are stronger than man's present ability to control them.”

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