"Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards."

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Source : Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.815, Head of Zeus Ltd

Ellis Peters

#Thinking Quotes #Passing Quotes #Passings Quotes

“There comes a time in every man's life when he is either going to go fishing or do something worse.”
“I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.”
“driving at the speed limit--hideous thought.”
“I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student League, or be a dancer. So that was my plan. Some plan. And I had no money.”
“We are two different people, Ethan. Just because you could never decide which one of us you were in love with does not make us interchangeable.”
“The soul of man createth its own destiny.”
“Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea.”
“When Grand Masters play, they see the logic of their opponent's moves. One's moves may be so powerful that the other may not be able to stop him, but the plan behind the moves will be clear. Not so with Fischer. His moves did not make sense - at least to all the rest of us they didn't. We were playing chess, Fischer was playing something else, call it what you will. Naturally, there would come a time when we finally would understand what those moves had been about. But by then it was too late. We were dead.”

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