"No woman who had been intimate with a god was easily disturbed."

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Source : Michael Cadnum (2015). “Starfall: Phaeton and the Chariot of the Sun”, p.13, Open Road Media

Michael Cadnum

#Intimate Quotes #Disturbed Quotes

“Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise every day in the U.S. Senate... It's what he's done every day in state government.”
“We live in what's called an open society, which of course means they open our emails, open our phone records, and open our medical records.”
“Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.”

Source : Sir Thomas Malory (1936). “A Shorter Malory”
“The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere.”

Source : Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.197, University of Chicago Press
“To know that there's a good chance that this is something that could potentially be around well after I leave this planet... it's a good feeling.”
“By the time I was 4, I knew how to hit my mark.”
“The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.”

Source : Ernest Hamlin Abbott, Lyman Abbott, Francis Rufus Bellamy, Hamilton Wright Mabie (1901). “The Outlook”
“We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom”

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