"I started down but Sam caught my arm and knelt down himself to look. "For crying out loud," he said. "It's a racoon." "Poor thing," I said. "It could be a rabid baby-killer," Cole told me primly. "Shut up," Sam said pleasantly."

-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Baby Quotes #Arms Quotes #Killers Quotes

“There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.”
“The fact is that Britain is the most warlike nation on earth. In the history of armed combat, we are the only democracy to have declared war on another democracy - England versus Finland in the second world war, in case you're interested - and we're always at the front of the queue when Johnny Foreigner gets a bit uppity. Who stood up to the Kaiser? Who stood up to Adolf? And let's not forget the Argies. What other country would have sent its fleet halfway round the world and lost 250 men to protect a flock of sheep and some oil that might or might not be there? We're still at it.”
“When people say of their tragedies, 'I don't often think of it now,' what they mean is it has entered permanently into their thoughts, and colors everything.”

Source : Shirley Hazzard (1981). “The Bay of Noon”, Berkley Publishing Group
“The life you want doesn't exist. You have to make it up.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 16, 2012
“The American business man cannot consider his work done when he views the income balance in black at the end of an accounting period. It is necessary for him to trace the social incidence of the figures that appear in his statement and prove to the general public that his management has not only been profitable in the accounting sense but salutary in terms of popular benefits.”
“Everyone has the answers.”
“We need to challenge our own thinking.”
“When you died I didn't weep nor dream but knew you like a god breathe in each healing we begin.”

Source : Olga Broumas (1999). “Rave: poems, 1975-1999”, Copper Canyon Pr

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