"I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him."

-- Asa Larsson

#Children Quotes #Father Quotes #Book Quotes

“A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.”
“One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.”
“Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.”
“I don't think it's a low point being in the finals of the French Open, three points away from the victory.”
“The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.”

Source : Charles Horton Cooley (1922). “Human Nature and the Social Order”
“I started down but Sam caught my arm and knelt down himself to look. "For crying out loud," he said. "It's a racoon." "Poor thing," I said. "It could be a rabid baby-killer," Cole told me primly. "Shut up," Sam said pleasantly.”
“Try not to take pictures which simply show what something looks like. By the way you put the elements of an image together in a frame show us something we have never seen before and will never see again.”
“As I reread each book of the Bible, I fell in love all over again - not just with God's Word, but with God himself.”

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