"Lansens is a willing storyteller.... As a writer, she desires a particular kind of reader, one who wants above all to be transported--who might sit at her knee, the hearth."

-- Noah Richler

#Heart Quotes #Desire Quotes #Want Quotes

“You become a parent, and your whole life becomes about worrying. You just worry constantly whether they'll be okay. And the idea that I'll be worried forever about them and what they do...I almost have a panic attack when I think about it. I'm worried, and I'm worried about having to worry so ***** much.”
“Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.”
“I would point out that if you’re a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn’t because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy.”
“I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.”
“The secret of true happiness lies within unwavering devotion to God”
“Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.”
“Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.”
“Into this wild-beast tangle these men had been born without their consent, they had taken part in it because they could not help it; that they were in jail was no disgrace to them, for the game had never been fair, the dice were loaded. They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.”

Source : Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.163, Xist Publishing

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