"Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book."

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Eva Ibbotson

#Loneliness Quotes #Book Quotes #Taught Quotes

“A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.”
“You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.”
“There is a point when facing the unknown stops being a longed-for adventure and becomes a terrifying reality.”
“The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.”
“The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at least, I am told they were) is that he had no sense of touch whatsoever. Nothing made any impression on his skin. He could feel neither the shape nor the texture of a poem with his hands.”
“Press close, bare-bosomed Night! Press close, magnetic, nourishing Night! Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars! Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night!”
“But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough.”
“I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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