"Light like this does not exist, but we wish it did. We wish the sun could make us young and beautiful, we wish our clothes could glisten and ripple against our skins, most of all, we wish that everyone we knew could be brightened simply by our looking at them, as are the maid with the letter and the soldier with the hat."

-- Susanna Kaysen

#Beautiful Quotes #Light Quotes #Clothes Quotes

“With a measly 18 percent of our Congress composed of women, the U.S. ranks just 77th in the world in terms of women in elected office, surpassed by such countries as Ezbekistan and Moldova.”
“We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make. A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound, But we make them something neither cloth nor a sound, Totems of love and hate, black sorcery-stones.”

Source : STEPHEN VINCENT BENET (1928). “JOHN BROWN'S BODY”
“Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best most responsibly and responsively when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.”
“Not exclusively, but the bulk of our local economy should be covered by local currencies, which is more efficient than having global currencies which lose connection with reality in the markets, shops and communities of the people.”
“You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
“When I finally went to school I had to adjust to other girls and learn their fiendish ways. Having learnt them, I turned them on all and sundry.”
“After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.”

Source : Jasper Fforde (2004). “The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.51, Penguin
“My biggest regret is that I didn't teach my two children how to speak Spanish.”

Source : "'Survivor' Aras: I'd Be 'Stoked' if Vytas Won". ETonline Interview, www.etonline.com. November 21, 2013.

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