"his thumbs ran over my cheeks. Our foreheads touched. My dreamscape scorched. He set fire to the poppies"

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Source : Samantha Shannon (2013). “The Bone Season”, p.421, A&C Black

Samantha Shannon

#Fire Quotes #Thumbs Quotes #Poppies Quotes

“Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it - ink it!”
“Life's too short not to laugh about yourself and the cards you're dealt.”
“But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?”

Source : Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.65, Cambridge University Press
“But my relief that David Auburn's Proof is less about its ballyhooed higher mathematics than the fragility of life and love was matched by my delight in his fine and tender play. (...) Proof surprises us with its aliveness and intelligent modesty, and we have not met these characters before.”
“bubbles of false opinion will last whole ages, and deceive whole generations, till they are broken by some powerful breath, and even then how often they reunite, and again shine in the eyes of men, who hold them solid as cannon-balls!”

Source : Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.103
“It's when people begin using their religion as just a way of getting power over other people that scares me. I'm afraid that's what's going on in a lot of cases right now. When people deliberately tell lies, Creationism for instance, and pretend, "Oh, it's not really religion." I mean they know they're lying, and yet they're the religious people. There's something wrong there.”
“A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles ... it takes your mind off the cost of living.”
“How's the game changed in my 15 years in the league? Well, we used to be called hard-working players. Now we're overpaid crybabies.”

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