"Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating."

-- Randy Wayne White

#Book Quotes #Character Quotes #Long Quotes

“In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.”
“You never understand how dear your privacy is until you lose it.”
“You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind.”
“Exploratory research is really like working in a fog. You don't know where you're going. You're just groping. Then people learn about it afterwards and think how straightforward it was.”
“When you have bacon in your mouth, it doesn't matter who's president.”
“Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.”

Source : Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.3066, Head of Zeus Ltd
“Building a new Health and Hospitals Network is fundamental to building a stronger and fairer Australia.”
“All our lives we are engaged in preserving our experiences and keeping them fresh by artificially sprinkling the water of memory over them. They have ceased to retain their original smell and fragrance. Do you call it life- this effort at the preservation of a phantom freshness in something that is withered and gone?”

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