"Irene Bennett Brown keeps the promise of her gifted writing and love for history inside this fine contemporary mystery. I loved it."

-- Jane Kirkpatrick

#Writing Quotes #Promise Quotes #And Love Quotes

“More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives that determine our destiny.”
“There are the fundamental core values of the Democratic Party, which is to work to grow the economy, to create jobs, to encourage small business, to encourage ownership, to expand access to quality health care, to enhance opportunity by making higher education more affordable to American's young people, to have our children live in safe neighborhoods, drug-free, crime-free, and a safe and clean environment, first and foremost to provide for the national defense, to protect and defend the American people, and to have accountability for our budget and for our spending.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“The result was I went nowhere.”

Source : Pat Barker (1993). “Regeneration”, p.38, Penguin
“Sometimes, I don't notice I'm singing.”
“Such pip-squeaks as Nixon and McCarthy are trying to get us so frightened of Communism that we'll be afraid to turn out the lights at night.”
“I hate to see a woman cry, unless of course I'm crying first in which case I feel it's appropriate.”
“Great imaginations are apt to work from hints and suggestions, and a single moment of emotion is sometimes sufficient to create a masterpiece.”
“But my mother's life was a never-ending round of maintenance. Not one single thing did she ever achieve but that it had to be done all over again, one day or one week or one season later. Oh, the monotony.”

Source : Jacqueline Kelly (2009). “The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate”, p.213, Macmillan

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