"For Drake is no longer in his hammock, children, nor is Arthur somewhere sleeping, and you may not lie idly expecting the second coming of anybody now, because the world is yours and it is up to you."

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Source : Susan Cooper (1977). “Silver on the Tree”, Simon & Schuster

Susan Cooper

#Children Quotes #Lying Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“You are the butter to my bread,and the breath to my life”
“I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos -- and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of understanding Louis Armstrong or songs from the Congo. I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth.”

Source : Frantz Fanon (2008). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.27, Grove Press
“So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me.”
“My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.”
“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”
“Jesus Christ, being 2000 years old and some change, is a relatively "new" god of the older god category - and has done quite well for himself, in terms of worship.”
“Alteration is a constructive act, not a destructive one, and it's the opposite of most of our impulses.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“One of the things I love about cinema is the range.”

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