"Since I didn't have a spork handy, I leaned over the sink and scooped up a palmful of cold water and pressed it against my face. There had to be a better option than a violent sporking. There had to be a way to get rid of my dad."

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Source : Devon Monk (2009). “Magic in the Shadows: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.13, Penguin

Devon Monk

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“The graveyards are full of indispensable men.”
“I have a mindset that says bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.”

Source : "Mourdock dismisses Lugar attack". Interview, www.politico.com. May 9, 2012.
“If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?”

Source : Paul Farmer (2004). “Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor”, p.206, Univ of California Press
“Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.”

Source : "Lake Wobegon Days". Book by Garrison Keillor, 1985.
“Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.”
“You couldn't always control life, just your response to it.”

Source : C. C. Hunter (2012). “Whispers at Moonrise”, p.227, St. Martin's Griffin
“To the question, "When were your spirits at the lowest ebb?" the obvious answer seemed to be, "When the gin gave out."”
“Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.”

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