"When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house."

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Source : "The queen of crime" by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

Maj Sjowall

#Summer Quotes #Mother Quotes #Children Quotes

“To slaughter grand and beautiful creatures like these tuskers, whether terrestrial or marine, solely to obtain a few teeth indicates that we have not evolved very much since the days our forebears lived in caves and saught to prove their superiority by adorning themselves with teeth and claws”
“I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.”
“I see not a step before me as I tread on another year;But I've left the Past in God's keeping,-the FutureHis mercy shall clear;And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.”

Source : "Not Knowing". The Congregationalist; set to music as a hymn by Philip Paul Bliss in the 1870s, as quoted in "Glimpses of Christian History Presents More Stories: Blessed Bliss" (2007) by Thomas Corts, March 1869.
“A seven-year-old girl can take only so many walks with her grandfather.”
“Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.”
“Getting plenty of sleep is always great. It really is. I have a girlfriend who's sending me a slant board.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Some people have said Brother Khalid was a villain, but we know he was a victim in a world that is evil. Racism and injustice are the real villains here.”
“The brain has not explained the mind fully.”

Source : Wilder Penfield (2015). “Mystery of the Mind: A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human Brain”, p.88, Princeton University Press

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