"Lynn smacks Uriah hard in the back of the head, Christina says, â€œHey Tris!â€ and Uriah cries, â€œOw! How on earth do you make a pillow hurt, Lynn?â€ â€œMy exceptional strength,â€ she says."

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Veronica Roth

#Hurt Quotes #Hey Quotes #Earth Quotes

“We have a policy at Greenpeace that we no longer debate people who don't accept the scientific reality of anthropogenic climate change.”
“There were some particular themes that I knew I wanted to hit, and when I got deeper into the project I found that it was becoming serious in and on its own. By the end, it's not very funny at all. I think, now, that part of the power of the book is that the jokes are kind of sparkly distractions.”

Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.
“I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it.”

Source : "Jimmy Dean: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. June 14, 2010.
“You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.”

Source : " Abbott defends indefensible in sending son to private school" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2003.
“A value strategy is of little use to the impatient investor since it usually takes time to pay off.”
“Alice suspected Paul couldnâ€™t really picture his father, just like she couldnâ€™t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.”
“The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its purpose is to protect persons and property.... If you exceed this proper limit -- if you attempt to make the law religious, fraternal, equalizing, philanthropic, industrial, or artistic -- you will then be lost in uncharted territory, in vagueness and uncertainty, in a forced utopia or, even worse, in a multitude of utopias, each striving to seize the law and impose it on you.”
“I knew from previous books not to count on anything in terms of sales. My first novel - -The Raven's Bride, about Sam Houston's disastrous first marriage - -sold well and got attention, but my second book - -Promised Lands, about the Texas Revolution - -didn't.”

Source : Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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