"Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening as if smacked and smacked again."

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Source : "Winter's Bone". Book by Daniel Woodrell, 2006.

Daniel Woodrell

#Eye Quotes #Wind Quotes #Skins Quotes

“What you do, you don't think of as a product”
“There is a rumour that I can't draw and never could. This is probably because I work so much with models. Models are one of the most beautiful design tools, but I still do the finest drawings you can imagine.”
“There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.”
“Strength, the American way, is not manifested by threats of criminal prosecution or police state methods.Leadership is not manifested by coercion, even against the resented. Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.”

Source : "Declaration of Conscience‎" by Margaret Chase Smith, (p. 293), 1972.
“We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers”
“It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.”
“God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.”
“Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble.”

Source : Steve Berry (2015). “The Cotton Malone Series 9-Book Bundle”, p.820, Ballantine Books

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