"Christmas: the one time of year when you canâ€™t avoid the nuts in your family muesli."

-- Charles Stross

#Years Quotes #Nuts Quotes

“Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.”

Source : Jesse Ball (2007). “Samedi the Deafness: A Novel”, Vintage
“Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of Bond and the smarts of Holmes--without the pesky morality.”
“In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture.”
“Tomorrow, I will take on all of these things. I will be unstoppable.”
“It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it.”
“The only reason these kids keep score in these games is for the parents and coaches satisfaction. Who cares? They're 10 years old.”
“What happened to you?â€ Jace looked affronted. â€œWhat happened to me?â€ Alec shook him, not lightly. â€œYou said you were going for a walk! What kind of walk takes six hours?â€ â€œA long one?â€ Jace suggested.”
“If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.”

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