"To wake in the night: be wide awake in an instant, with all your faculties on edge: to wake, and be under compulsion to set in, night for night, at the same point, knowing from grim experience, that the demons awaiting you have each to be grappled with in turn, no single one of them left unthrown, before you can win through to the peace that is utter exhaustion."

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Source : Henry Handel Richardson (pseud.) (1930). “The fortunes of Richard Mahony: comprising Australia Felix, The way home, Ultima Thule”

Henry Handel Richardson

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“they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square of four locked trees which promised cooling; they flung themselves into the shade to taste their lip sweat and contemplate the wildness that had come upon them so suddenly”
“The law, moreover enjoins us to bring up all our offspring, and forbids women to cause abortion of what is begotten, or to destroy it afterward; and if any woman appears to have so done, she will be a murderer of her child, by destroying a living creature, and diminishing humankind.”

Source : Flavius Josephus (2015). “Writings of Josephus: Book 2”, p.283, Lulu.com
“A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.”
“I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.”
“If God wanted you to putt cross-handed, he would have made your left arm longer.”
“When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates you have to think, you are a complete idiot.”
“The most interesting part of filming is what the actors do. That's the primary link between the story and the audience.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“furious flutter awakened hummingbird heart hello hello love”

Source : Megan McCafferty (2007). “Second Helpings: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.354, Broadway Books

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