"Light is important to us humans. It influences our moods, our perceptions, our energy levels. A face glimpsed among trees, dappled by the shadows and the green-tinged light reflected from the forest, will seem quite different to the same face seen on a beach in hard, dry, sunlight, or in a darkening room at twilight, with the shadows of a venetian blind striped across it like a convictâ€™s uniform."

-- John Marsden

#Beach Quotes #Twilight Quotes #Tree Quotes

“For a person who lives 100 years in the future, the present comes as no surprise.”
“This silent cry is of ecstasy for what has been done, and of despair at being forestalled, and being thus forewarned, that neither This Year nor Next Year am I to have the ability and wisdom to light the lamp on my own. Although one branch of childhood is in this fashion lopped for all time, the rest of it still inhabits the body of a child which occupies itself in childish matters.”
“At a party recently I was introduced to Meryl Streep, and it took me a second to get my head around it. You know, that I'm meeting these people now. I'm doing it.”
“The French flag is the only one to have a staff a thousand feet tall.”
“Elizabeth's voice had a door in it. When you opened that door you found another door, and that door opened yet another door. All the doors were nice and led out of her.”
“I love London, I love the British people.”
“I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.”

Source : Letter to "The Times", (p. 11), April 26, 1968).
“I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen”

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