"But she had to know words. She had to know everything."

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Source : Eva Ibbotson (2008). “The Morning Gift”, p.5, Pan Macmillan

Eva Ibbotson

“Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.”

Source : "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, p. 5, 1930.
“There are 7 billion people in the world, and 5.1 billion of them have a cell phone, and 4 billion have a toothbrush.”
“You better get it while you can”
“You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.”
“Non- reaction is not weakness, But Strength!”
“The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark.”
“Hers was a memory made up of snapshorts: being dragged through the snow by a pack of wolves, first kiss tasting of oranges, saying goodbye behind a cracked windshield. A life made up of promises of what could be: the possibilities contained in a stack of college applications, the thrill of sleeping under a strange roof, the future that lay in Sam's smile. It was a life I didn't want to leave behind. It was a life I didn't want to forget I wasn't done with it yet. There was so much more to say.”
“I made a decision when I ran for president that I wouldn't whine about my coverage in the media, and I never did.”

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