"All that sunny afternoon, traveling north and east, Caroline believed absolutely in the future. And why not? For if the worst had already happened to them in the eyes of the world, then surely, surely, it was the worst that they left behind them now."

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Source : Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.76, Penguin

Kim Edwards

#Eye Quotes #World Quotes #East Quotes

“Today we charge George Zimmerman with murder in the second-degree.”
“If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.”
“Sometimes you have an idea that is so simple that you can't see how it can fail. But in learning, being right is not always the quickest way to success”
“Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the whole of his Hypothesis, scil that the gravitation was reciprocall to the square of the distance: ... This is the greatest Discovery in Nature that ever was since the World's Creation. It was never so much as hinted by any man before. I wish he had writt plainer, and afforded a little more paper.”
“I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.”
“I am sick of war. Every woman of my generation is sick of war. Fifty years of war. Wars rumored, wars beginning, wars fought, wars ending, wars paid for, wars endured.”

Source : Josephine Winslow Johnson (1996). “The Inland Island”, Writer's Digest Books
“I want to reconcile myself with heaven,I want to love, I want to pray,I want to believe in good.”

Source : "The Demon". Poem by Mikhail Lermontov, 1830.
“You can see why the Marxist left would resist the idea that Hitler was a revolutionary. Because if he was, then either Hitler was a force for good, or revolutions can be bad.”

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