"God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again."

-- Robert South

#Father Quotes #Mind Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“Over time, the ghosts of things that happened start to turn distant; once they've cut you a couple of million times, their edges blunt on your scar tissue, they wear thin. The ones that slice like razors forever are the ghosts of things that never got the chance to happen.”

Source : Tana French (2012). “Broken Harbour: Dublin Murder Squad: 4. Winner of the LA Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction Book of the Year”, p.176, Hachette UK
“If you are in the same place today as you were yesterday, you areÂ a backslider.”
“I think my Wallander stories give a fairly good image of the world in the 1990s. I don't regret anything about that - on the contrary!”
“I had been to SÃ£o Paulo the year before and became pretty well acquainted with the music of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, I had already started playing that music, and the audience response had been pretty good because those songs are so melodic. I knew it would be something that would be appealing; I wasn't thinking that it would make the top of the pop charts or anything like that.”
“We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we should be celebrating the miracle of being here in this world.”
“Vampires!!! What a time to be caught without a turtleneck!”
“O death! We thank you for the light that you will shed upon our ignorance.”
“O Lord, I wish to promote thy holy religion which is dreadfully neglected. I am desirous to save young persons from the vices of the age.”

Source : Sarah Trimmer (1825). “Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Trimmer: With Original Letters, and Meditations and Prayers, Selected from Her Journal”, p.117

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