"If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan."

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Source : Claire Cook (2015). “Seven Year Switch”, p.222, Marshbury Beach Books

Claire Cook

#Determination Quotes #Japan Quotes #Letters Quotes

“I still don't know if things fit together, or if everything will be all right in the end. But I believe that something means something. I believe in cleansing the soul through fun and games. I also believe in love. And I have several good friends, and just one bad one.”

Source : Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.135, Canongate Books
“Igby was a really good opportunity for me to grow up. The cast was great.”
“The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.”
“Heaven Is as the Book of God before thee set, Wherein to read His wondrous works.”
“Let soul speak with the silent articulation of a face.”
“I had the perfect accident for the perfect idea. I was rendered immobile where the only thing I could do is mess with my computer.”
“Old stories would tell how Weavers would kill each other over aesthetic disagreements, such as whether it was prettier to destroy an army of a thousand men or to leave it be, or whether a particular dandelion should or should not be plucked. For a Weaver, to think was to think aesthetically. To act--to Weave--was to bring about more pleasing patterns. They did not eat physical food: they seemed to subsist on the appreciation of beauty.”
“When kids know that you refuse to let them fail ... they don't give up as easy. So sometimes they don't have it inside, [but] they're like,'You know, I don't want to do this, but I know my mother's going to be mad.'That matters to kids, and it helps get them through.”

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