"Today my winged horse is coming and I am carrying you off to the moon and on the moon we will eat rose petals."

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Source : Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”

Shirley Jackson

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“will there ever be a drama more beautiful than that of eating?”

Source : Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”
“The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.”
“What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.”
“The Bible is God's declaratory revelation to man containing the great truths about God, about man, about history, about salvation, and about prophecy that God wanted us to know. The Bible could be trusted just as much as if God had taken the pen and written the words Himself.”
“I feel strongly about showing up and being prepared and not taking the opportunity for granted and being conscientious about my fellow co-workers.”
“It's okay to not be superwoman all the time.”
“We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.”

Source : Tracy Letts (2010). “August”, p.154, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.”

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