"And just like that, I'd been assessed and judged. Nurse Fashoda didn't know the first thing about me but she'd taken one look at my face and now she reckoned she knew my whole life story -- what had gone before and what was yet to come."

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Source : Malorie Blackman (2007). “Knife Edge”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

Malorie Blackman

#Taken Quotes #Nurse Quotes #Faces Quotes

“You've got to dig in [and learn about things you don't know] if you want to stay in the conversation.”

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“I say Iâ€™m an atheist but I wouldnâ€™t mind being visited by a ghost.”
“It feels good to watch TV and know that you're being represented on somebody's network and for certain communities, it feels even better to know that you're being depicted truthfully.”
“An editor is someone dedicated to destroying the work of a creator.”
“I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids - like when I'm putting them to bed. We sing some song that we made up but I don't want to make a record like that.”
“I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.”
“The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.”
“We're in the world of communications more and more, tough we're in communication less and less.”

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