"She finds tales everywhere, in grains of sand she picks up from the garden, in puffs of smoke that drift out from the chimneys of the village, in fragments of smooth timber or glass in the jetsam. She will ask them, "Where did you come from? How did you get here?" And they will answer her in voices very like her own, but with new lilts and squeaks and splashes in them that show they are their own."

-- David Almond

#Garden Quotes #Glasses Quotes #Voice Quotes

“Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.”
“A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.”
“When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom.”
“The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.”

Source : Speech in the Convention Nationale (16 January 1793), Archives Parliamentaires de 1787 à 1860, vol. 57, p. 368, 1900.
“There is no lock strong enough nor wall thick enough to keep Death out," he murmured, his lips close to my ear so that I could feel the puff of his breath against my skin. The ends of a couple of his braids had found their way under the collar of my flannel night-shirt and tickled the base of my neck. "Are you speaking literally or metaphorically?”

Source : Jenna Black (2016). “Descendant: The Complete Nikki Glass Series”, p.122, Simon and Schuster
“our quarrels with the world are like our quarrels with God: no matter how right we are, we are wrong.”

Source : Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”
“She is everything. And if she is everything, maybe that's answer enough.”
“My martial arts came a lot from my uncle, who actually taught martial arts through the military. He was a black belt in tae kwon do, but also, he used a lot of military-style fighting where it's not the high kicks or anything like that. It's basically defeat your opponent as fast as possible.”

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