"All memories fashioned at the level of a child's eye were unreliable in scale."

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Source : Carol O'Connell (1995). “Mallory's Oracle”, p.133, Penguin

Carol O'Connell

#Children Quotes #Memories Quotes #Eye Quotes

“Hey Mantle, you win. You're the worst.”
“My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.”
“I'm having to protect myself. How do you protect your heart and cover everything? When you don't want to look people in the eye and you're constantly dodging, I fall into it.”
“Religion is a collective insanity.”

Source : Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin “The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin”, Library of Alexandria
“I've got to make a new life for myself, I'm out to learn how to enjoy my leisure now that I'm retired. I've been doing things people expected of me always. I want to feel free. I want to sit under a linden tree with nothing more important to worry about than the temperature of the beer, if there is anything more important.”
“My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.”
“The Creator is not a careless mechanic.”

Source : Ina May Gaskin (2010). “Ina May's Guide to Childbirth”, p.141, Random House
“You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.”

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