"...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them."

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Source : Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done”, p.262, Macmillan

Gabrielle Zevin

#Girl Quotes #Lying Quotes #Sound Quotes

“If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.”
“[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.”
“We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.”
“When I'm teaching, I'm not really doing my job if the student who's always comfortable doing wacko stuff all over the page keeps getting gold stars from me for doing wacko stuff all over the page. A riskier assignment for that student, who might be used to hiding behind a lot of formal armor, would be to try to do something straightforward, traditionally, in which they are much more directly laid bare for the reader.”

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“Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that future. 'Ow can people ignore this? We 'ave to leave a good world for our children, n'est-ce pas?”

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“Mindfulness is like thatâ€”it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and restore it to wholeness so that we can live each minute of life.”
“This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-f ly-apart-disint egrate! The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, by reading your story, will catch fire, too?”
“There are certainly numberless women of fashion who consider it perfectly natural to go miles down Fifth Avenue, or Madison Avenue, yet for whom a voyage of half a dozen blocks to east or west would be an adventure, almost a dangerous impairment of good breeding.”

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