"The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say."

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Source : Gregory Maguire (2009). “Mirror Mirror: A Novel”, p.2, Harper Collins

Gregory Maguire

#Eye Quotes #Light Quotes #Shadow Quotes

“It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind,”
“The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books.”
“The same was true of the most popular girls. They had no empathy, no compassion for more normal kids.”

Source : "The Uplift War". Book by David Brin, chapter 10, p. 66, 1987.
“If I'm the poster boy for steroids, ***** is going out of business.”
“[Fur] is really ridiculous. It's outrageous. We're not living in igloos. We don't need to trade pelts anymore. There is this diabolical idea that fur is fashionable. It's not. It's death. There's no excuse for it.”
“The curse is an incredible set of blue balls.”
“Nothing is of greater threat to the enemy than a believer with the Word of God living and active upon her tongue, readily applied to any situation.”
“Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.”

Source : Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley (1900). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”

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