"Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high."

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Source : William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.185, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

William Goldman

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“The claims of existing social arrangements and of self interest have been duly allowed for. We cannot at the end count them a second time because we do not like the result.”
“A girl is grown up when she stops counting on her fingers and starts counting on her legs.”
“Although I agree that wild horses are a symbol of the American West, I also believe that it is the responsibility of Congress to ensure that these animals are managed, protected, and controlled in an effective manner.”
“Jesus did not come to be the Messiah”
“And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.”
“We felt that the police needed a label, a label other than that fear image that they carried in the community. So we used the pig as the rather low-lifed animal in order to identify the police. And it worked.”
“True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the nation [United States] is steadily dumbing down.”
“You need an entire life just to know about tomatoes.”

Source : "This column will change your life: mise en place" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2014.

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