"Did you love Melanie?" asked Adam unexpectedly. There was no pause before I shook my head. "That's a shame," said Adam. "Why?" "Well, someone as special as your daughter should've been... made with love."

-- Malorie Blackman

#Daughter Quotes #Special Quotes #Shame Quotes

“I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro.”
“I know stereotypes have a bad reputation, people say, "Oh, you shouldn't stereotype people," but I think it's important to recognize that we couldn't function in the world without stereotypes.”
“But it is true that some magazines have a policy to show only a certain amount of black girls on their covers. Naomi is right. It's not fair, and I wish it would change.”
“I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.”

Source : "Research in Nuclear Magnetism". Edward Mills Purcell's Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1952.
“If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?”
“Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.”
“He even knew the reason why: because enough men had gone off to war saying the time for gardening was when the war was over; whereas there must be men to stay behind and keep gardening alive, or at least the idea of gardening; because once that cord was broken, the earth would grow hard and forget her children. That was why.”
“Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?”

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