"Pansy rolled over and went to sleep, but Petunia stayed awake long after Olga left, and long after Oliver crawled out from under the bed, grabbed some sandwiches, and slipped out the door. She hoped that he was going to Galen and Rose's room, and she hoped, too that he hadn't known she was awake when he had leaned over and kissed her hair. She wanted to savor that touch forever."

-- Jessica Day George

#Sleep Quotes #Hair Quotes #Doors Quotes

“But I'm not looking forward to trying to strike out a lot of guys”
“Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.”

Source : "The Satires". Book by Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satire V, line 151,
“I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.”
“The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.”
“I do seem to favor a deathbed confession as the occasion for my dramatic monologues.”
“It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory, pulling a whole scheme of government out of the air like a rabbit out of a hat. True, many of them had read and studied enough about the science of politics to put the average statesman of today to shame. But political science was to them an extremely practical topic of discussion, dealing with the extremely practical business of running a government--not, as today, a branch of higher learning reserved for the use of graduate students.”

Source : Fred Rodell (1986). “55 Men, Story of Constitution”, p.22, Stackpole Books
“Just know this: What you will do among children is as close to the heart of God and central to his kingdom as anything we could mention.”

Source : Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.247, WaterBrook
“A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life.”

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