"We're standing on the deck that's all wooden like the deck of a ship. There's fuzz on it, little bundles. Grandma says it's some kind of pollen from a tree. "Which one?" I'm staring up at all the differents. "Can't help you there, I'm afraid." In Room we knowed what everything was called but in the world there's so much, persons don't even know the names."

-- Emma Donoghue

#Grandma Quotes #Names Quotes #Tree Quotes

“Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.”
“I am a huge fan of Gwen Stefani.”

Source : AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.
“Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed down, and mistreated by servants, and repolished, and knocked around and dusted and sat on or slept in or eaten off of before it develops its real character ... A good deal like human beings.”
“America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.”
“We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways.”
“When in doubt, err on the side of generosity.”
“Parliament has become so undermined it is almost unable to do the job that people expect of it. A glaring example is the budget bill, where there was no thoughtful debate or scrutiny of the legislation.”
“Fortunately, all it takes for us to be of one mind is some buttercream frosting.”

Source : Jen Lancaster (2009). “Pretty in Plaid: A Life, A Witch, and a Wardrobe, or, the Wonder Years Before the Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smart-Ass Phase”, p.233, Penguin

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