"He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive."

-- Ian Mcewan

#Heart Quotes #Darkness Quotes #Lines Quotes

“I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.”

Source : Joseph Dalton Hooker, Leonard Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker O.M., G.C.S.I.”, p.511, Cambridge University Press
“I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.”
“I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life.”
“I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films.”
“When you listen and read one thinker, you become a cloneâ€¦ two thinkers, you become confusedâ€¦ ten thinkers, youâ€™ll begin developing your own voiceâ€¦ two or three hundred thinkers, you become wise and develop your voice.”
“Dead people are all on the same level.”
“Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.”
“Without fathers you would have no civilization.”

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