"Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions."

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Helen Garner

#Book Quotes #Years Quotes #Punishment Quotes

“People shouldn't notice what you're wearing before they notice you. You want people to register you first. 'Oh, what a nice jacket' should be an afterthought if you're doing it right.”
“Rennie didn't quite dare to answer back, but she looked a whole book and a couple of extra chapters.”

Source : Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “Thirteenth Child”, p.129, Scholastic Inc.
“I can't stand cell phones and I don't know one single thing about the computer. I have a friend come that lives in my building to check if I have emails. I don't even know what to google.”
“I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.”
“When I was four years old some friends of my family took me to see 'Fantasia' and I was totally blown away. From that minute on I wanted to be an animator.”

Source : "Lives of a Cell, the 3-D Version". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. March 14, 2007.
“He lay before God as a woman opens herself to a man, with legs apart, stomach exposed, arms open. But unlike some women, he did not have the inner strength that allowed them to do such a thing without fear. There was no womanâ€™s strength in Mellas at all.”
“It is hard for women not to be overly self critical, I am no exception!”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“Wishing for the impossible in the future is a good exercise, I think, especially for children; wishing for it in the past is surely the emptiest and saddest of occupations.”

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