"The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has bcome the secret friend of their author."

-- Katherine Mansfield

#Reading Quotes #Secret Quotes #Happy Thoughts Quotes

“There really is no difference in the actual writing or plotting. I choose to tell different stories for the younger reader and, of course, I would never put sex and extreme violence in a YA book. But writing for adults and children requires the same care and attention.”
“I believe that everyone is destined for greatness, but most people aren't willing to pay the price it takes to get there.”
“I'm a bit of a slag... Some people don't think it's very nice, but I don't care... I've got hormones, and sex is there, so why not? Sex is good. Everybody does it, and everybody should!”
“I don't even know what that means. People who get credit have to get it from somewhere. Does a credit bubble mean that people save too much during that period? I don't know what a credit bubble means. I don't even know what a bubble means. These words have become popular. I don't think they have any meaning.”
“I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.”

Source : Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.232, Pan Macmillan
“The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.”
“For it was only after I could become President of this country that I could really see in all its hopeful and troubling implications just how much the hopes of our citizens and the security of our Nation and the real strength of our democracy depended upon the learning and the understanding of our people.”
“I have been involved in Internet-related policy for approximately one decade, and I have been using the Internet myself for almost that period of time.”

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