"I'll challenge senators and kings for the right to know the truth, but far be it from me to challenge a woman in her own kitchen."

-- Mira Grant

#Kings Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Kitchen Quotes

“What you cannot conquer, circumvent but do not compromise yourself for the sake of the urban jungle, because concrete does not sympathise.”
“You will remember this when all else fades, this moment, here, together, by this well. There will be certain days, and certain nights, youâ€™ll feel my presence near you, hear my voice. Youâ€™ll think you have imagined it and yet, inside you, you will catch an answering cry. On April evenings, when the rain has ceased, your heart will shake, youâ€™ll weep for nothing, pine for whatâ€™s not there. For you, this life will never be enough, there will forever be an emptiness, where once the god was all in all in you.”
“There is so much that is fake about our society. My generation is craving something that is real, honest and true. The Message is straight up! It's modern, relevant, and direct.”
“I just want to remind us all there are billions of people in the world who are deeply religious, who get enriched by the wonderful sense of community by their religion. But these same people do not embrace the extraordinary view that the Earth is somehow only 6,000 years old.”
“The trails of the world be countless, and most of the trails be tried; You tread on the heels of the many, till you come where the ways divide;And one lies safe in the sunlight, and the other is dreary and wan,But you look aslant at the Lone Trail, and the Lone Trail lures you on.”

Source : Robert William Service, “The Lone Trail”
“Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.”
“Whatever the tiny bubbles sitting beautifully on the surface of the absolutely delicious-looking skin around his forehead and neck were, they were doing a lot for his overall appearance...and for my heart rate.”
“The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.”

Source : "Rachel Cusk: A fine contempt". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2009.

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