"This girl: she bent reality around her like a lens bending light, she pleated it into so many flickering layers that you could never tell which one you were looking at, the longer you stared the dizzier you got."

-- Tana French

#Girl Quotes #Reality Quotes #Light Quotes

“Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle distance and foreground... there shouldn't be any 'ideas' visible.”
“I'm not wild about the term first lady. I'd just like to be called Laura Bush.”

Source : "Laura Bush Grows Into Star Role". www.cbsnews.com. June 24, 2004.
“And what would they be scared of? There's nothing to fear in a perfect world, is there?”

Source : Catherine Fisher (2011). “Incarceron”, p.103, Penguin
“8.45 a.m. My mother is in the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. She is looking old and haggard. All the debauchery is catching up with her.”

Source : Sue Townsend (1991). “Adrian Mole, from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries : the First Ten Years”
“On Saturday mornings I would walk to the Flavor Cup or Puerto Rico Importing coffee store to get my coffee. Often it was freshly roasted and the beans were still warm. Coffee was my nectar and my ambrosia: I was very careful about it. I decanted my beans into glass...and I ground them in little batches in my grinder.”
“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribblerâ€™s heart, kill your darlings.”
“Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.”
“Iâ€™m a student of patterns. At heart, Iâ€™m a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything.”

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