"She's a surprise this old earth, one big surprise after another since before she separated from the moon who circles and circles like the mate of a shot goose."

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Source : Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.4, Vintage

Peter Heller

#Moon Quotes #Circles Quotes #Earth Quotes

“I have a Web site that parents and girls can use to learn about Title IX and take action if they find their school is not in compliance. Thirty years after Title IX passed, 80 percent of schools are not in compliance.”
“Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.”
“I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.”
“In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.”
“The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob.”
“She was no closer to determining who might want her dead. There were just too many possibilities.”

Source : Gail Carriger (2010). “Blameless: Book 3 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.34, Hachette UK
“If you let yourself be truly seen, then you can be truly loved.”
“But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!”

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