"The mother-in-law is the centre of a family."

-- Les Dawson

#Mother Quotes #Law Quotes #Centre Quotes

“Children's book writers tend to feel quite superior, and adult writers tend to feel they wouldn't know how to write a children's book - which might surprise you because I think a lot of people think it's the other way around.”
“Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.”
“I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.”

Source : Mary Stewart (2011). “Stormy Petrel”, p.44, Hachette UK
“My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.”
“I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.”
“And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed, we have excised from our adult vocabularies. These words are the ***** of innocence, words which adults no longer use with other adults, and so we laugh at them and consign them to the nursery, fear masking as cynicism. These are the words that were forged in the earth, air, fire, and water of human existence, and the words are: Love. Hate. Good. Evil. Courage. Honor. Truth.”
“If you simply walk on the beach as we are doing, you have no special color. But if you travel with a purpose, it is different. When you go somewhere important or you return home from a long journey, you build a shape around you and it reaches out ahead to touch your destination.”
“Great little One! whose all-embracing birth Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.”

Source : Richard Crashaw (1858). “Complete works”, p.40

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