"Once one habit peels away the others follow it. You have to hold on, or the next thing you'll find yourself parading down the street in your nightdress. Habit is everything."

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Source : Helen Dunmore (2008). “Your Blue-Eyed Boy”, p.217, Penguin UK

Helen Dunmore

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“See, at a certain point it becomes cool to be boy crazy. That happens in sixth grade, and it gives you so much social status, particularly in an all-girls school, if you can go up and talk to boys.”
“If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means. And if there is any one thing that is grinding and discouraging and disheartening, it is to have debts and obligations that one cannot meet.”
“What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?”

Source : Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1997). “The Bedquilt and Other Stories”, p.29, University of Missouri Press
“If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it.”

Source : "Secrets of the Old One". "Groks Science" with Frank Ling, grokscience.wordpress.com. January 18, 2009.
“The hippest thing you can do is not play at all. Just listen.”
“Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.”
“Sexuality is a sacrament.”
“It was a lot easier when we could just brand'em," Ben said. "Then everybody'd know not to mess with our womenfolk.”

Source : Jennifer Crusie (2007). “Manhunting”, p.213, HQN Books

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