"Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that."

-- Melissa Bank

#Book Quotes #Character Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Late twentieth-century machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artificial, mind and body, self-developing and externally designed, and many other distinctions that used to apply to organisms and machines. Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.”
“She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.”
“If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not...”
“Whatever God has done for other men, He can do for me.”
“As is often the case with children, the rule of 'monkey see, monkey do' plays out in the workplace. It's hard to be good role model, and it's one of the greatest challenges of leadership.”
“Without emotion, what's the point of being human?”

Source : Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.115, Penguin
“Although still viewed as lovely and alluring by many, Winston Churchill's mother shocked society when at 46 she married a man 20 years her junior. Most malicious of the many jibes launched at her was that of one lady who went about peering into perambulators. When asked her reason, she replied, "I am searching for my future husband."”
“'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.”

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