"Juliet and Romeo be damned, you can't be in love until you've flossed your teeth next to the person at least three hundred times..."

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Source : Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.194, Penguin

Marisha Pessl

#Three Quotes #Next Quotes #Teeth Quotes

“I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right....Dead, but right.”
“Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.”
“What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.”
“We're phenomenally blessed in the Walla Walla Valley. We have great, complex soil that's nutrient-rich but fairly porous.”
“A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.”
“I guess anybody who plays can say that they play guitar, but if you want to be a guitarist, you've got to practice all the time and you've got to get good at it. It's more than just having one and playing it.”
“The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women.”

Source : Millicent Fawcett (2017). “Women's Suffrage”, p.39, Litres
“The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.”

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