"I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories."

-- Hilary Mantel

#Memories Quotes #Children Quotes #Grandmother Quotes

“Thereâ€™s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will”
“Bryan Lee O'Malley has been alive since he was born and will lives until he dies.”
“There are dozens of unfinished or aborted projects in my files, but I can only assume they don't get done because they're not robust enough to struggle through the birth process.”
“Many truths which are not believed are called lies,' the Laughing Beast said. 'Mirrors do not themselves lie unless they have been enchanted. Ordinary mirrors merely reflect what is revealed to them. People lie and mirrors reflect people. If your mother feared mirrors in your land, she feared herself.”
“I don't know what singers feel like when they make a song and people clap along and love it, but when people walk up to me and say the food was outstanding, that's what it is all about. I cook because I like to make people happy.”
“True friendship is like the asphalt of life. It fills in the potholes and makes the journey smooth.”
“In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow - and that is likely to hurt.”

Source : Wei Wu Wei (2004). “Posthumous Pieces”, p.55, Sentient Publications
“What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.”

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