"What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In piles on the floor. In bookcases that stretched from floor to ceiling and lined the entire room. I turned around and around in a slow circle, feeling as if I'd just stumbled into Ali Baba's cave. I was breathless, close to tears, and positively dizzy with greed."

-- Jennifer Donnelly

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“In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?”

Source : "From “Hercules” to “Christmas Angel”: Kevin Sorbo talks about his personal journey and his role in GMC TV’s new yuletide film about the value of human kindness". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.
“But anyone who has been that young knows that the great grief of love is that your body feels the most when it knows the least.”

Source : Sarah Dunant (2006). “In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel”, p.226, Random House
“We all marry strangers. All men are strangers to all women.”
“The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so that insincerity becomes permanent.”
“I've been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I've been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work.”
“Home's the most excellent place of all.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 01, 2009
“In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta - there lived a tailor in Gloucester.”

Source : Tailor of Gloucester (1903) p. 9
“Our efforts cannot and should not substitute for just public policies and effective programs to meet the needs of the hungry...Money, food, and time donated to Catholic charities should not be misread as a sign for success for volunteerism, but rather a desperate attempt to feed the hungry people when others have abandoned their responsibility.”

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