"Rosanne Daryl Thomas's tale of her enchantment by bees is a delight to read. It also contains close observations of the natural world, tales of failure and triumph with the hives, and a stellar cast of characters that includes her daughter, their cats, the hapless Farmer Tom, Pete the crossing guard, and, most important, the Bee Master. Every word tastes sweet as honey."

-- Janet Lembke

#Daughter Quotes #Sweet Quotes #Cat Quotes

“One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.”
“Look at my haircut. I am ready for the war. The objective is to win the Premiershp. I don't want to dominate, to finish without defeat, record points or goals or consecutive wins. The Premiership is so difficult you cannot be focused on that. I just think about winning.”
“When you've got insane drums and a lot of guitar, it's really hard to mix the vocals, to mix it all well.”
“Many young girls are constantly consumed by controlling and managing their body image to the extent that they are much more involved in the production of the self than in living.”
“... they always tell us it's getting to the top that's hard. Climbing's the easy part. Sliding down the other side, that's the hard part.”

Source : Susan Dunlap (1995). “High Fall”, Dell Publishing Company
“Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics tend to be rather well-educated people - and quite another to be a faddist, by which I mean someone who tries to conjure a totally foreign aesthetic in a misplaced environment...”
“I entertain no doubts as to the truths of the tranfinites, which I recognized with God's help and which, in their diversity, I have studied for more than twenty years; every year, and almost every day brings me further in this science.”

Source : "Modern Mathematicians". Book by Harry Henderson, 1995.
“What was toughest for me in writing "Trust," was reliving it, turning and facing this. We move on and we don't move on, you know? She's still there - and by "she" I mean me - caught in that windowless room, that bad bargain and that violation. No one can touch me, sexually, without activating that memory. But I had walled, I thought, that time off. I say that and then want to say "and I got off lightly"!”

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