"You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive."

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Source : Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.174, Pan Macmillan

Bella Pollen

#Escaping Quotes #Needs Quotes #Fugitive Quotes

“Talk about polygamy! There is no true philosopher on the face of the earth but what will admit that such a system, properly carried out according to the order of heaven, is far superior to monogamy for the raising of healthy, robust children!”
“Everything solid was first an idea.”
“I'll admit I wanted to be a pilot, originally.”
“In the last century the practice of medicine has become no more than an adjunct to the pharmaceutical industry and the other aspects of the huge, powerful and immensely profitable health care industry. Medicine is no longer an independent profession. Doctors have become nothing more than a link connecting the pharmaceutical industry to the consumer.”
“Endless days of dark indoors and hateful glances are enough to set a rime on anyone's bones.”

Source : Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.32, Pan Macmillan
“Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.”
“One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something to do.”
“Things work out the way they're meant to”

Source : Danielle Steel (1991). “Changes ; No greater love ; Thurston house”

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