"Above the dirt of an unmarked grave and beneath the shadow of the abandoned refinery, the children would play their own made up games: Wild West Accountants! in which they would calculate the loss of a shipment of gold stolen from an imaginary stagecoach, or Recently Divorced Scientists! in which they would build a super-collider out of garbage to try and win back their recently lost loves."

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Source : Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.8, Akashic Books

Joe Meno

#Love Quotes #Children Quotes #Loss Quotes

“The morning sun Radiantly Rises above the frosty woods.”
“I joke that I reached the bimbo trifecta when I came to Fox News! In being a former Miss America, being blonde and then Fox.”

Source : "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.
“I certainly think there are things that impressed me as a child about the church. The smells and the sounds and the pagaentry of it remained with me. The aesthetic I really love. I think a lot of my sense of melody comes from singing those hymns and doing the renaissance music and stuff.”

Source : "Shearwater". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. April 24, 2007.
“Do what is right because it is right; and leave it alone.”

Source : "Fictional character: Army Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi". "Letters from Iwo Jima", 2006.
“There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.”
“I'm very comfortable in Argentina. I was raised there as a baby and stayed there until I was 11 years old, so the first decade of my life or my formative years were spent in Argentina. I stayed in tune with the food, music and language.”
“I never watched a frame of the film until it was finished.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Essentially I see the new atheism as largely part of the crisis of the left. Having failed to carry through its agenda in relation to political and economic life it's rounding on religion, ignoring the fact that, in some key respects, many believers are likely to share leftist aspirations.”

Source : "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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