"The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love."

--

Mignon McLaughlin

#Marriage Quotes #Judging Quotes #Convenience Quotes

“I would favor a law that no one could ever buy a gun.”
“That's Right! I Own the WCW!”
“Besides, I'd heard too many Karen Carpenter tales at Gladstone PTA meetings, and they often took the form of boasts. The prestigious diagnosis of anorexia seemed much coveted not only by the students but by their mothers, who would compete over whose daughter ate less. No wonder the poor girls were a mess.”
“I'd be dong something creative - something I could express my personality through. I enjoyed working as a gardener before music consumed more of my time. I would probably be still working as a gardener, perhaps, and I wouldn't mind doing odd jobs on the side that were creative, but I'm not sure what they'd be.”
“I grew up poor, but I didn't have poor dreams”
“What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.”
“I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'”
“Please," she whispered as she opened the book, "please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take me far, far away”

Source : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.357, Scholastic Inc.

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