". . . she dreamed of nothing, for she hoped for nothing and expected nothing. It was as cold and dark inside her as out in the frosty night."

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Source : Karen Cushman (2012). “The Midwife's Apprentice”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Karen Cushman

#Dark Quotes #Night Quotes #Cold Quotes

“People always tell me I'm too modest, and that I'm allowed to tell myself now and then that I'm good at something. Well okay then, the bathroom is very (beautiful) clean right now.”
“A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.”
“At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.”
“It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.”
“It is hard to sever the cords that tie us to our slavery and leave intact those that bind us to ourselves.”
“The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to be considered a good guy. Americans are almost as fearful of being thought eccentric as the English of not seeming like the genuine article. I once knew an Englishman who refused to go out on Easter Monday for fear of being detected in London when all the right people would be elsewhere; but when he went forth on less dangerous occasions, his get-ups were such as no American would wear to a dogfight.”
“People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are.”
“Just be nice to people and be someone people want to work with because if people don't like working with you it's just not going to work out.”

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