"My head grew muddled with it all; the silly ways adults acted with one another, never saying what they meant, trusting in sighs and glances and distance to speak for them instead. How dangerous that was! How easy it must be to misinterpret a sigh or a look."

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Source : Melanie Benjamin (2010). “Alice I Have Been: A Novel”, p.46, Delacorte Press

Melanie Benjamin

#Distance Quotes #Silly Quotes #Looks Quotes

“I am fairly rich. Money's very handy, let's face it.”

Source : "This much I know: Bob Hoskins". Interview with Bob Hoskins, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2009.
“If you want to experience abundance, then don't choose a path that ensures scarcity or limitation. Choose a path that has a shot of leading to prosperity. Say no to non-prosperous choices like a job with a fixed paycheck.”
“Young people who learn the arts do better in every phase of their lives.”
“You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a fist), it's damn near impossible to turn this around.”
“But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.”
“Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle.”
“I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me living 100 years later in New York City. I'm drawn to him because of his way with characters and their relationships with each other.”
“silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?”

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