"The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact."

-- Joan Aiken

#Children Quotes #Book Quotes #Impact Quotes

“There's no better way to dismantle a personality than to isolate it.”
“David knew everyone because he's such a social butterfly.”
“If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out”
“The prophet shows that, for the sake of silence, we are to abstain even from good talk. If this be so, how much more needful is it that we refrain from evil words, on account of the penalty of the sin!”
“I don't know how to stop the atrocities. I don't know how to make people care. But looking into my sister's eyes, we seem to have carved out something between us that none of the madness can touch. Invisible threads.”
“I don't normally do big movies. I'm new to this world. And I've always been afraid that jumping onto a big budget film, you would lose the relationships in favour of special effects.”
“The rigidity of those pledges is something I donâ€™t like. The circumstances change and you canâ€™t be wedded to some formula by Grover Norquist. Itâ€™sâ€”who the hell is Grover Norquist, anyway?”
“The sad thing about Trump is that everybody is secretly really relieved he got elected, of the people I know - the professional left and academic left.”

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