"Lips to lips, mouth to mouth, Comes the speaker of the shrouds, Suck in the spirit, speak the words, Let secrets of the dead be heard."

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Source : Yasmine Galenorn (2009). “Night Huntress: An Otherworld Novel”, p.94, Penguin

Yasmine Galenorn

#Secret Quotes #Mouths Quotes #Lips Quotes

“You have been told that God is a loving, gracious, merciful, kind, compassionate, wonderful, and good sky fairy who runs a day care in the sky and has a bucket of suckers for everyone because weâ€™re all good people. That is a lieâ€¦ God looks down and says â€˜I hate you, you are my enemy, and I will crush you,â€™ and we say that is deserved, right and just, and then God says â€˜Because of Jesus I will love you and forgive you.â€™ This is a miracle.”
“I thought that I would like to be affiliated with some school or institution. As time went on, I also decided on the subject that I wanted to get involved with in addition to music: it was Black Studies.”
“The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.”
“I wish that we could tumble them in the dryer for 30 minutes and get them to shrink, but that won't happen.”
“She was mother not only to me but to the whole nation. She served the Indian people to the last drop of her blood.”

Source : Rajiv Gandhi (1987). “Selected speeches and writings”
“In the world of late-night comics, Letterman made us feel any hometown boy from Indianapolis could poke fun at celebrities and politicians and do it right to their faces.”
“A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person.”
“The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.”

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