"The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves."

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Maria Edgeworth

#Hurt Quotes #Class Quotes #Bores Quotes

“Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.”
“The best research you can do is to talk to people.”
“Italy's youngsters complain, apparently, about having to live at home until they are 72 but that's because they spend all their money on suits and coffee and Alfa Romeos rather than mortgages.”
“When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records.”
“In New York, you are forced into having very public lives and observing all types of people, what they sound like, what they're reading, what they smell like, what they are listening to, how they talk to their friends.”
“Werewolf games,' Mercy said solemnly, 'play for keeps, or go home.' She was so cute sometimes it made Adam's heart hurt.”
“Population trends have always provoked doom-fraught oracles, because their popular interpreters suppose that every new series will be infinitely sustained; yet, beyond the short term, expectations based on them are never fulfilled.”
“She put out her hand and touched his forearm, as she would have touched some piece of porcelain or sculpture, just for the sheer animal pleasure of feeling its shape and curve beneath her fingertips.”

Source : Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “The Shell Seekers”, p.107, Macmillan

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