"It takes a lot of doing to die."

-- Betty Smith

“If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.”

Source : Geraldine Brooks (2006). “March”, p.74, Penguin
“The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.”
“My only deliberate attempt has been to act, to do good work. Thereafter, the medium has been choosing me.”

Source : Source: www.ibtimes.co.in
“Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding. Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.”
“My house is not James Bondish at all. Sorry.”
“I loved her, atom by atom, one burning cell at a time.”

Source : Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2010). “Beautiful Darkness”, p.26, Hachette UK
“An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when the stranger enters the gates, never, thereafter, to be a stranger.”
“Luce didn't know how to pull away from Cam.”

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