"The magic girl licked the wet off her arms and looked over to me as if to say, See? You don't have to behave like them, you don't have to behave like anyone."

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Source : Melvin Burgess (2010). “Smack”, p.132, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

Melvin Burgess

#Girl Quotes #Magic Quotes #Arms Quotes

“One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.”
“We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.”
“There are different ways to raise capital that were not available when I was growing my business.”
“I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.”
“Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be. Then you will be able to say, I found my hero and he is me.”
“Since there's no more you and me. It's time I let you go so I Can Be Free.”

Source : Song: Better in Time, 2007
“Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.”
“It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.”

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