"I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances."

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Source : Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.116, Emblem Editions

Anne Michaels

#Love Is Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“I'm quite a good reader of people; I like to meet people, and I can tell if they're lying or not, and I've certainly had interviews with people in this radio show I've done that swear they've seen things or have had bizarre experiences with creatures, and so I think they're telling the truth.”
“To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game.”
“You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want.”

Source : "Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale". Book by Holly Black, 2007.
“Your body's made to run, to walk, to trek long distances and carry things, work in a forest, and hunt animals. You have to keep it alive to function.”
“The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.”
“Kids want nothing more than for all the important adults in their life to get along.”
“I was meant to play the bad guy, for always and ever.”
“I took my mother's knife and played johnny johnny johnny on the playhouse floor. I was drunk, stabbed myself every few throws. I held my hand up and there was satisfaction at seeing my blood, the way there was when I saw the red gouges onmy face that people stared at and turned away. They were thinking I was beautiful, but they were wrong, now they could see how ugly and mutilated I was.”

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