"Family!... You might just as well celebrate battle, murder and sudden death."

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Margaret Mahy

#Battle Quotes #Might Quotes #Murder Quotes

“If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any written law â€“ if that is not what we have always cried out against in Fascist states â€“ then what is it?â€¦ If we are to survive as a free democracy, then we must be prepared, in principle, to concede to our enemies â€“ even those who do not subscribe to our views â€“ as much constitutional rights as you concede yourself.”
“I say to my colleagues that I sit alongside them in committee, in the bars and in the tea room, and I queue alongside them in the division lobby. But when it comes to marriage, they are asking me to stand apart and to join a separate queue. I ask my colleagues, if I am equal in this house, to give me every opportunity to be equal.”
“All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.”
“What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.”
“I wonder why we always deny love. I remember in middle school, if you were accused of the crime of loving, you screamed denials constantly and stopped ever even looking at the boy you were accused of liking. The boys could destroy each other by yodeling, "An-drew lo-oves Jen-nie," and both Andrew and Jennie would flinch and blush. Love is this great thing that most songs and books and poems and lives are all about. So the minute we actually think there might be love around, we start laughing and pretending and hiding from it.”

Source : Caroline B. Cooney (2012). “The Girl Who Invented Romance”, p.58, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.”

Source : "Emma Watson attacked for 'exploiting' Alan Rickman's death 'to push her own feminist agenda'" by Helen Pye, www.mirror.co.uk. January 15, 2016.
“If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.”
“We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.”

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