"Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess."

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Source : Maile Meloy (2010). “Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It”, p.70, Canongate Books

Maile Meloy

#Knights Quotes #Chess Quotes #Way Quotes

“And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.”
“Love is giving everything and taking nothing”
“The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. Theres never a need to feel lost anymore.”
“How to explain to the earth that it was more functional as a vegetable patch than a flower garden, just as factories were more functional than schools and boys were more functional as weapons than as humans.”
“Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.”
“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”

Source : The Independent (UK), March 28, 2003.
“I'm so poor I can't even pay attention.”
“It's not the world wide web. It's the women wide web.”

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