"If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother."

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Source : Kate Atkinson (2010). “Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie)”, p.34, Random House

Kate Atkinson

#Mother Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Motherhood Quotes

“Women are a problem, but if you haven't already guessed, they are the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with.”
“You can't just pretend that the things you watch, and the things you hear, and the places you go will not have an impact on your character. They will.”
“Thereâ€™s nothing like a good olâ€™ film light in a fogged up studio.”
“Man doth seek a triple perfection: first a sensual, consisting in those things which very life itself requireth either as necessary supplements, or as beauties and ornaments thereof; then an intellectual, consisting in those things which none underneath man is either capable of or acquainted with; lastly a spiritual and divine, consisting in those things whereunto we tend by supernatural means here, but cannot here attain unto them.”

Source : 1594 Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity.
“I'm sure the red fern has grown and has completely covered the two little mounds. I know it is still there, hiding its secret beneath those long, red leaves, but it wouldn't be hidden from me for part of my life is buried there, too. Yes, I know it is still there, for in my heart I believe the legend of the sacred red fern.”
“Only love can penetrate all your karmas and resistances and set your heart on fire with the awareness of its true nature.”
“Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material.”
“Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. don't forget that, all of you who don't have them.”

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