"However in the world did her skin come green?" Nanny wondered, stupidly, for Melena blanched and Frex reddened, and the baby held her breath as if trying to turn blue to please them all. Nanny had to slap her to make her breath again."

-- Gregory Maguire

#Baby Quotes #Blue Quotes #Skins Quotes

“A Spaniard will seek to persuade you that the bull-ring is an institution got up chiefly for the benefit of the bull.”
“Great masters merit emulation, not worship.”
“A history of listening to Top 40 radio had left me with a ridiculous and clichÃ©d notion of love. I had never entertained the feeling myself but knew that it meant never having to say you're sorry. It was a many-splendored thing. Love was a rose and a hammer. Both blind and all-seeing, it made the world go round.”
“We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.”
“The Freedom which Christianity gives, is a Freedom from the Bondage of Sin and Satan, and from the Domination of Men's Lusts and Passions and inordinate Desires; but as to their outward Condition, whatever that was before, whether bond or free, their being baptised, and becoming Christians, makes no manner of Change in it.”
“Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.”
“You've got to make haste while it's still light of day.”
“There are places on Earth, in every country, where, for various reasons, good schools cannot be built and good teachers cannot or do not want to go.”

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