"I would hit you on the head with a rock and drag you away from this. But it would only shatter the rock."

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Jim Butcher

#Rocks Quotes #Drag Quotes

“The girls I dream of are the gentle ones, wistful by high windows or singing sweet old songs at a piano, long hair drifting, tender as apple blossom. But a girl who goes into battle beside you and keeps your back is a different thing, a thing to make you shiver. Think of the first time you slept with someone, or the first time you fell in love: that blinding explosion that left you cracking to the fingertips with electricity, initiated and transformed. I tell you that was nothing, nothing at all, beside the power of putting your lives, simply and daily, into each other's hands.”
“I've had people who see all my characters as Native, even if they aren't. It's kind of like assuming all a writer's characters are really female because the writer is a woman. I've learned to let that go.”

Source : "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.
“I need thy presence every passing hour; What but thy grace can foil the tempter's power?”

Source : Henry Francis Lyte (1850). “Remains of ... H.F. Lyte. With a memoir by the ed”, p.120
“O sweet everlasting Voices, be still; Go to the guards of the heavenly fold And bid them wander obeying your will, Flame under flame, till Time be no more....”
“The meek shall inherit the earth - a 6 foot plot above them.”
“When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old; you're just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something of a curiosity. And boy! if you hit seventy, and can still get a foot off the ground, you're phenomenal!”
“People who never had enough thrift and forethought to buy and pay for property in the first place seldom have enough to keep property up after they have gained it in some other way.”

Source : Thomas Nixon Carver (1926). “The Present Economic Revolution in the United States”
“Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society”

Source : Edward Burnett Tylor (2016). “Primitive Culture”, p.1, Courier Dover Publications

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