"After a lifetime's independence– yes, selfish independence as my daughter would rightly claim – I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to seas of confusion from which the cruel lucid intervals poke up like rock shoals."

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Source : "Iris and Ruby: A Novel".

Rosie Thomas

#Fear Quotes #Selfish Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine is better than Young Avengers. Better than Phonogram. Better than Watchmen. Better than The Bible.”
“The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans”
“So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.”
“I could just barely see the dark curve of his shoulder, and something about the shape it made, the gesture it suggested, filled me with a sort of fierce, awful affection.”
“Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.”

Source : Louisa May Alcott (2009). “Abbot's Ghost: A Christmas Story”, p.16, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.”
“Always wear high heels. Yes, they give you power. you move differently, sit differently and even speak differently.”
“When I was really young, I got moonstruck by Moonstruck.”

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