"When his grandchildren had been little, they had asked if they could hide inside the clock. Now he wanted to gather them and open himself up and hide them among his ribs and faintly ticking heart."

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Source : Paul Harding (2011). “Tinkers”, p.34, Random House

Paul Harding

#Heart Quotes #Grandchildren Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Sometimes I feel that 'Footloose' is the rite of passage.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not.”
“Don't think the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness, wrap a blanket around yourself, and say, 'How cozy! I'm going to curl up in here by myself; let the world burn.' Not at all. We go deep into meditation so that we can reach out further and further to the world outside.”
“To those who had ordered them to death one of them said: 'We die because the people are asleep... you will die because the people will awaken'.”
“Find your own dream! Keep this dream and take good care of it and then sometime you will accomplish something [and feel the intense satisfaction that only the achievement of a long held, worthwhile goal can give].”
“Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the naughtiest of them all?”
“Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy.”
“The E.U. initially decided to end the isolation of Turkish Cyprus, to balance the accession of Cyprus. But the E.U. has not carried through on its promise.”

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