"How right- how incredibly, utterly right- and how impossible!"

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Source : Elizabeth George Speare (2011). “The Witch of Blackbird Pond”, p.122, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Elizabeth George Speare

#Impossible Quotes

“If you've gotten yourself into a situation when Clay Aiken is going to talk about his feelings with you, it's time to kill yourself.”
“Thirty years ago, my sister, Gale (so named because a gale hit Boston Harbor the night she was born), some friends and I stole a boat in the middle of the night and sailed it out of the Santa Barbara harbor. Suddenly we were becalmed and the current began pushing us toward the breakwall. With no running lights and no power, we were dead in the water. Out of that darkness a steel hull appeared: it was the local Coast Guard cutter. My father, stern-faced and displeased, stood in the bow.”
“Stress exacerbates any problem, whether it's diabetes, heart trouble, MS, or whatever.”

Source : "Mary Ann Mobley: going public about a private disease". Saturday Evening Post Interview with Cory SerVaas, January 1, 1994.
“Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.”

Source : "Israeli Journalist Amira Hass on Palestinian Resistance, 'Peace Talks' and U.S. Role in Region". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. April 10, 2013.
“People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.”

Source : Edgar Degas, Russell Ash (1992). “Degas' Ballet Dancers”, Universe Pub
“I could step out of this sad life like it's an old sorry dress.”
“The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason.”

Source : Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.533, New Directions Publishing
“Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.”

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