"Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself."

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Margaret Stohl

#Mom Quotes #Smell Quotes #Paper Quotes

“Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
“We do have responsibilities, as we live on this planet. It is our one and only home, which we are obligated to protect, to keep as beautiful and harmonious as it is. It is really for everyone to do so, including you and me.”
“The right to be heard would be, in many cases, of little avail if it did not comprehend the right to be heard by counsel. Even the intelligent and educated layman has small and sometimes no skill in the science of law.”

Source : Powell v. Alabama, 287 U.S. 45, (53), 1932.
“I blew the lot on vodka and tonic, gambling and fags. Looking back, I think I overdid it on the tonic.”
“So, friends, every day do something that won't compute...Give your approval to all you cannot understand...Ask the questions that have no answers. Put your faith in two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years...Laugh. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts....Practice resurrection.”

Source : Wendell Berry, “Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front”
“We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.”
“There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.”
“It was a strange thing, this feeling of empathy. He'd never experienced it before. He realized that what hurt this woman hurt him as well, that what made her bleed caused a hemorrhage of pain within his soul.”

Source : Elizabeth Hoyt (2010). “Wicked Intentions: Number 1 in series”, p.186, Hachette UK

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