"The boy planted his hands on his hips and a broad smile lit his face. "My name's Peter. Can I play too?"

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Source : Brom (2009). “The Child Thief: A Novel”, p.27, Harper Collins

Brom

#Boys Quotes #Hands Quotes #Play Quotes

“Scientific accuracy confirms the Bible is the Word of God.”
“Doesnâ€™t the God who created the universe out of nothing and put all the stars in place, have the power to take care of your situation?”
“When you finally accept that you're a complete dork, your life gets easier. No sense in trying to be cool.”
“We will have to abandon the philosophy of Democritus and the concept of elementary particles. We should accept instead the concept of elementary symmetries.”
“Is the Son of God praying in me, or am I dictating to Him?... Prayer is not simply getting things from God, that is a most initial form of prayer; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God. If the Son of God is formed in us by regeneration, He will press forward in front of our common sense and change our attitude to the things about which we pray.”
“There are some women in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else. Love is scarcely felt before duty rushes to encase it, anger impossible because one must always be calm and see both sides, pity evaporates in expedients, even grief is felt as a sort of bruised sense of injury, a resentment that one should have grief forced upon one when one has always acted for the best.”
“An emptiness rules at its core, a rottenness, a silence when one of you retires to bed without saying good night, when you eat together without conversation, when the phone's passed wordlessly to the other. An emptiness when every night you lie in the double bed, restlessly awake, astounded at how closely hate can nudge against love, can wind around it sinuously like a cat. An emptiness when you realize that the loneliest you've ever been is within a marriage, as a wife.”
“I enter myself in races. I did a triathlon, and I have done a marathon a couple of times.”

Source : "Balanced?". Interview with Stevie Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2006.

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