"Just because we've never done it doesn't mean we can't do it."

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Source : Eva Ibbotson (2009). “The Dragonfly Pool”, p.65, Penguin

Eva Ibbotson

#Mean Quotes #Done Quotes

“Even though you're not equipped, keep searching: equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord.”
“Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.”
“I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been very athletic.”
“We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.”
“The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled tones as they did in summer; they talk in a different leaf-language now. The wind moves through the boughs like fingers drawn across the strings of a harp filling the air with the harsh dry sound of sapless leaves. It is the main theme of the autumn music, this murmuring counterpoint of dead leaves.”

Source : Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”
“Of course it looks bad when you're not executing. When things go bad, it's not going to look good.”
“I am alive. Up here with the song of the engine and the air whispering on my face as the sunlight and shadows play upon the banking, wheeling wings, I am completely, vibrantly alive. With the stick in my right hand, the throttle in my left, and the rudder beneath my feet, I can savor that essence from which life is made.”
“Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since John Lennon was shot and killed on 8 Dec 1980,”

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