"Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out."

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Source : Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.3066, Head of Zeus Ltd

Ellis Peters

#Home Quotes #Circles Quotes #Half Quotes

“The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority.”
“The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.”
“People say, â€˜How is she a plus-size model?â€™ and Iâ€™m like, â€˜Exactly, this is the point, how am I a plus-size model?”
“Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.”
“A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.”
“Life was what you did with what was done to you.”

Source : "God's War". Book by Kameron Hurley, 2011.
“Only the present counts.”
“At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.”

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