"The following doodle: a girl with pigtails is bent under the weight of a gigantic boulder. Her cheeks puff out, and her rounded lips expel steam. One widening steam cloud contains the word Pressure, darkly retraced."

-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Girl Quotes #Clouds Quotes #Puff Quotes

“Love can't be stolen without willing participants.”
“You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!”
“... in general, the Anglo-Irish do not make good dancers; they are too spritely and conscious; they are incapable of one kind of trance or of being seemingly impersonal. And, for the formal, pure dance they lack the formality: about their stylishness (for they have stylishness) there is something impromptu, slightly disorderly.”
“I don't believe in bad and good, I believe we are all a mix of both.”
“But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it's frozen shut.”
“Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.”
“How you manage change can make all the difference.”
“There is a verse [in the Koran] that says God swears by time. Anything you gain in life, you pay for with your time. Time is the most important thing that has been given to man.”

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