"I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated."

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Source : Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.9, Quirk Books

Ransom Riggs

#Born Quotes #Century Quotes #Cheated Quotes

“As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples on the surface of life, produced by unsuspected springs. And these may be very deep - as deep as the soul itself. The blunder may amount to the opening of a destiny.”
“For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.”
“There will never be another woman for me, Alexandra. You are my eternity. -Michael”
“Your Marines having been under my command for nearly six months, I feel that I can give you a discriminating report as to their excellent standing with their brothers of the army and their general good conduct.”
“When a child has no hope, a nation has no future.”

Source : Zell Miller (1998). “Listen to this Voice: Selected Speeches of Governor Zell Miller”
“My first memory as a child growing up is of playing in the gardens, the mosque is really a gigantic garden, probably the biggest in all of East Jerusalem. Our house was about 100 meters from the mosque.”
“There is great worth in holding universal truths and timelessly beautiful words in your heart, which will stay there forever, infusing your thoughts and speechâ€¦”
“Any great gift of power or talent is a burden ... But there is nothing to be done. If you were born with the gift, then you must serve it, and nothing in this world or out of it may stand in the way of that service, because that is why you were born and that is the Law.”

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