"Shane said, "Don't worry. I'll protect you." Claire hit him in the shoulder. "I don't need you to protect me." "Then why am I going first?" "So you can take the first punch while I throw the second?" "So I'm bait? Ouch. You've been in Morganville way too long, girl."

-- Rachel Caine

#Girl Quotes #Worry Quotes #Long Quotes

“Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.”
“There is no end to one's faults. To think of them makes one humble.”
“I no longer say nice things about yoga. I was doing yoga so long before everybody else.”
“One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things.”
“The whole world population rests on women. You have to start with the woman. And the woman will make her own decisions. If you want to have five or ten children, fine. You can have big families or small families, but you have the family you feel you can afford or feed. In China the one - child policy is already finished - on its way out because the economic conditions end up producing the same effect. If people want an expensive flat in a place like Shanghai, you can't have more than one child or two.”

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“Individuals of the earlier species had suffered from an almost insurmountable spiritual isolation from one another. Not even lovers, and scarcely even the geniuses with special insight into personality, ever had anything like accurate vision of one another. [T]he most precious gift that a lover could bring to the beloved was not virginity but sexual experience. The union, it was felt, was the more pregnant the more each party could contribute from previous sexual and spiritual intimacy with others.”
“One opinion I share with the Dadaists is that art-making presupposes a revolutionary state of mind. Assimilating the practice into commodity or symbol of status nullifies its fundamental aims; therefore at the center of my own adherence to to this ranginess in taste is that it doesn't add up to membership in a private club. The differences choose me. There are so many approaches, so many innovative moves, so many oddly shaped ears in the field; may they never sing in unison.”
“So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.”

Source : Michael Howard (1962). “The Causes of Wars and Other Essays”, p.25, Harvard University Press

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