"Celia." he says without looking up at her, "why do we wind our watch?" "Because everything requires energy," she recites obediently, eyes still focused on her hand. "We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change."

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Source : Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.22, Random House

Erin Morgenstern

#Eye Quotes #Hands Quotes #Wind Quotes

“I would see anything by Antony Gormley.”
“If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.”
“Some people fall in love with their co-stars and feel things that they never thought they would feel for them because they are touching.”
“I just wonder what has been the effect on the human soul of nearly a century in which we have regarded sex on screen as generally better than the sex we actually have, the sex which is, in fact, much better than anything we have seen in the movies, becuase it's sex, after all, and in the movies, it isn't.”
“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.”

Source : Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)
“I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.”
“Autumn ripens in the summer's ray.”
“Revenge is the single most satisfying feeling in the world!”

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