"Jabor finally appeared at the top of the stairs, sparks of flame radiating from his body and igniting the fabric of the house around him. He caught sight of the boy, reached out his hand and stepped forward. And banged his head nicely on the low-slung attic door."

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Jonathan Stroud

#Boys Quotes #Flames Quotes #Hands Quotes

“[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.”
“The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.”
“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”
“People say I slept with seven miss worlds, I didn't. It was only four, I didn't turn up for the other three”
“I wanted a shark that's big enough to eat you, and in a large enough amount of liquid so that you could imagine you were in there with it.”
“You are allowed to lie a little, but you must never mislead.”
“We fear only what we havenâ€™t understood.”
“The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts.”

Source : "A Theory of Justice". Book by John Rawls, 1971.

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