"If you expect the worst from people, that's exactly what you'll get."

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Source : Michelle Hodkin (2013). “The Evolution of Mara Dyer”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

Michelle Hodkin

#People Quotes #Worst Quotes

“Nor in the critic let the man be lost.”
“There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.”

Source : Brian Jacques (2002). “Mossflower: A Tale from Redwall”, p.292, Penguin
“When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid”
“For my last meal I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs.”

Source : "Erin O'Connor: 'I burnt my parents' lovely new kitchen down. But they forgave me in the end'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2011.
“Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you are gravelled for matter there is always the moral to fall back upon. Comparisons too may be drawn, leading cases cited, types and antetypes analysed and anecdotes introduced. Except for Archimedes mathematics is singularly naked of anecdotes.”
“One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train of thought. They drove me distracted while I was having influenza, gazing at me with large eyes and saying: O Sylvia, you are so ill, you'll soon be dead. And who will feed us then? Feed us now!”
“when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.”
“She was a beautiful woman dragging a crippled foot and I was that foot. I was bricks sewn into the hem of her clothes, I was a steel dress”

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