"Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure."

-- Storm Jameson

#Heart Quotes #Long Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma. That's where I trace the familial line of murder mystery obsession.”
“They've maintained their unbeaten record between the legs.”
“I'm the oldest, I have the most experience, and I'm the best looking [betwin brothers]. I've been told that on numerous occasions.”

Source : Source: www.complex.com
“They serve God well, who serve his creatures.”

Source : Caroline Sheridan Norton (1862). “The Lady of La Garaye”, p.121
“To me acting and singing are worlds apart.”
“Whatever you do not employ, you forfeit.”
“What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.”
“Because I would rather be with my grandfather on Alp than anywhere on earth.”

Source : Johanna Spyri (2015). “Heidi (Illustrated Edition): Classic of Children’s Literature”, p.73, e-artnow

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