"I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic."

-- James Broughton

#Eight Quotes #Magic Quotes #Toys Quotes

“Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.”
“There is something wonderful about a death, how everything shuts down, and all the ways you thought you were vital are not even vaguely important. Your husband can feed the kids, he can work the new oven, he can find the sausages in the fridge, after all. And his important meeting was not important, not in the slightest.”
“In my kids school, the married family is an anomaly which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.”
“So you don't have time for concealer, you have time for powder for when you start crying later about how some boy doesn't like you.”
“[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great idea that it was just like the best idea I'd ever heard in my life. It was like a great idea. I mean, it was - Not only was it vengeance, it was art, and it was, like, a great idea. And even if it didn't get any vengeance, it would still turn out okay with me because, you know, I would be sort of immortalized.”
“The childbearing year is a thirteen month year: the two months before conception, the nine months of pregnancy, and the two months following the birth. The childbearing is a time of adjustments and fierce emotions. The childbearing year touches every season.”
“Shakespeare drew a map of the human mind as clearly as Newton mapped the heavens. Wht is one considered science and the other fir only to be mocked with jokes about pretty girls and drury lane?”
“The library is like a candy store where everything is free.”

Source : Jamie Ford (2013). “Songs of Willow Frost: A Novel”, p.39, Ballantine Books

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