"What about desserts?" I asked. "If the world comes to an end, I'm going to want cookies."

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Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#World Quotes #Want Quotes #Cookies Quotes

“God appears, and God is Light, to those poor souls who dwell in Night; but does a Human Form display to those who dwell in realms of Day.”
“Hunger is the worst form of deprivation of a human being. Although inability to access food is the immediate cause of hunger, the real cause in most of the incidents of hunger is lack of ability to pay for food. If we are looking for ways to end hunger then we should be looking at ways to ensure a reasonable level of income for all”
“The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.”
“Humans and other animals experience love and fear, and form deep emotional bonds with cherished companions. We mourn when a close friend dies, and so do other animals, as Barbara King's poignant book illustrates in compelling detail. How Animals Grieve helps us to connect and to better understand the complex social lives of other animals and of ourselves.”
“It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.”
“It's sort of cheesy to introduce that to the drums - those dings and dongs and bell sounds. That's definitely one of the reasons people are like 'oh yeah, they sound like Tom Waits, with those trashcan drums.' But at the same time, it sounds so good! And it introduces this... I mean, it's not tuned, but somehow it adds this extra layer of melodic texture.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“youthful days are longer than those of later years, as we all learn as we grow older ...”

Source : Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]
“As the most religious country of the 18 surveyed, the U.S. also comes in with the highest rates for teen pregnancy and for gonorrhea and syphilis.”

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