"Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave!"

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Source : Geraldine McCaughrean (2010). “Peter Pan in Scarlet”, p.97, Oxford University Press - Children

Geraldine McCaughrean

#Beautiful Quotes #Strong Quotes #Clever Quotes

“Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.”
“I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.”
“Did you hotwire this car?" I then rephrased my question. "Did you STEAL this car?”
“In Egypt, I loved the perfume of the lotus. A flower would bloom in the pool at dawn, filling the entire garden with a blue musk so powerful it seemed that even the fish and ducks would swoon. By night, the flower might wither but the perfume lasted. Fainter and fainter, but never quite gone. Even many days later, the lotus remained in the garden. Months would pass and a bee would alight near the spot where the lotus had blossomed, and its essence was released again, momentary but undeniable.”
“You're going through college, and you're going to be faced with a lot of things. You're going to face adversity, the main thing is don't quit. For many people it's easy to quit, but don't. That's what separates the winners from the losers, what separates the all-stars from the also-rans.”
“I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here.”
“Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.”
“There is too much doing - too little being! When we begin to get strenuous, life begins to grow intolerable.”

Source : Martha Ostenso (1926). “The Dark Dawn”, New York : Dodd, Mead

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