"You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia."

-- Lisa Scottoline

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Philadelphia Quotes

“The reports of racial episodes are disturbing. But the players' protest is exhilarating because it is the most high-profile example to date in a continuing revolution in which the athletes who drive the multibillion-dollar college sports machine have begun to use their visibility to demand change.”
“True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything.”

Source : Charles Dickens (1871). “Works”, p.448
“When you're in a relationship with someone who's selfish, what keeps you in it is the fact that when they shine on you, it's this souped-up shine. And you feel like you're in the club. And you don't even know what club it is. You just know you want to stay in it.”
“Yellow usually means it's not that serious.”
“You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.”
“Dunkirk has fallen... with it has ended the greatest battle of world history. Soldiers! My confidence in you knew no bounds. You have not disappointed me.”
“What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them?”

Source : Jane Addams (2010). “Peace and Bread in Time of War”, p.85, University of Illinois Press
“I donâ€™t think of myself as a dissident, and Iâ€™m more of an immigrant than an exile,”

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