"Show me a novelist – or, indeed, a reader – who wasn’t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive reading and I’ll… well, I’ll probably bang my shoulder on the door frame as I storm out. Many of the most unforgettable female fictional protagonists are gauche, self-doubting, plain and think too much."

-- Charlotte Mendelson

#Reading Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Doors Quotes

“Child, think not of those things, those dark possibilities. Your father and brothers are here with you today. Lavain will tug at your braids, Tirry will sing you songs, and your father will see his wife's beauty in you. Savor their love today. And it will never leave you.”

Source : Lisa Ann Sandell (2008). “Song of the Sparrow”, p.84, Scholastic Inc.
“Taken everything I've got, all I've got's this sunny afternoon.”
“Which lady would I like to meet? Um, I don't know that there's anybody left that I didn't meet. But the one that I really wanted to meet died and that was Princess Diana. I really wanted to get to know her. I like her.”
“There are definite vocal trends for every generation as well as accents and I'm not talking about regionalisms.”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
“Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the moment insoluble. Today even the survival of humanity is a utopian hope.”

Source : Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.305, Wesleyan University Press
“You know, people tend to like to buy companies that are doing well.”
“Are the different species defined by paleontologists - Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis and ourselves, Homo sapiens - all part of the same gene pool or not?”
“If the shoe fits, wear it.”

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