"The Thorn and The Blossom can be read from either side - you can choose whether to read it from Brendan's or Evelyn's perspective first, and each one will give you a different sense of what happens in the story."

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Theodora Goss

#Giving Quotes #Perspective Quotes #Different Quotes

“There is no question that global warming will have a significant impact on already existing problems such as malaria, malnutrition, and water shortages. But this doesn't mean the best way to solve them is to cut carbon emissions.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.”
“It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.”
“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.”
“Indeed, one of the most frightening consequences of the Holocaust may well be that rather than serving as a warning to preserve humanity at all cost, it has provided a license to privilege physical survival over moral existence.”

Source : Omer Bartov (2000). “Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity”, p.176, Oxford University Press
“A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to relieve intolerable oppression. â€¦ I know of no one, outside of Patrick Henry, willing to die for an abstraction.”

Source : "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Two: "Electronics, Sabotage, and Surveillance", 1971.
“Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams.”
“For you see, the face of destiny or luck or god that gives us war also gives us other kinds of pain: the loss of health and youth; the loss of loved ones or of love; the fear that we will end our days alone. Some people suffer in peace the way others suffer in war. The special gift of that suffering, I have learned, is how to be strong while we are weak, how to be brave when we are afraid, how to be wise in the midst of confusion, and how to let go of that which we can no longer hold. In this way, anger can teach us forgiveness, hate can teach us love, and war can teach us peace.”

Source : Le Ly Hayslip (2012). “When Heaven & Earth Change Places”, p.16, Doubleday

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