"A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential to burst into new life."

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Source : Susan Hill (2010). “Howards End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home”, p.2, Profile Books

Susan Hill

#Book Quotes #Inanimate Objects Quotes #New Life Quotes

“I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks-it's really my relaxation.”

Source : "Obsessed with Cooking, M.J., and Being a Manny" by Rebecca Guinness, www.vanityfair.com. April 24, 2009.
“The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations; but of all the perennial miracles she offers to his inspection, perhaps the most worthy of admiration is the development of a plant or of an animal from its embryo.”
“The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived.”

Source : Marilyn Monroe (2010). “Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters”, p.100, Macmillan
“As a speculator you must embrace disorder and chaos.”
“A mother's love is like a beacon, Burning bright with Faith and Prayer, And through the changing scenes of life, We can find a haven there....”

Source : Helen Steiner Rice (2003). “Especially for Mothers”, Barbour Publishing
“It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.”
“Because you know He can, you can pray with holy confidence.”
“I try to get through emotional pain and not go around it, it always ends sooner that way. I also use chocolate.”

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