"An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony."

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Source : Ursula Parrott (1989). “Ex-wife”, Plume

Ursula Parrott

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“Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.”
“Stronger people are harder to kill”
“Burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars. And we are burning in Africa, every single year, more than one billion hectares.”
“She couldn't imagine why there was such a difference between those children and her. She couldn't imagine why she and all these other people with her had to be treated this way. Who decided this, and what for?”

Source : Tatiana De Rosnay (2008). “Sarah's Key”, p.51, Hachette UK
“Orderly discipline and morale within an army was the responsibility of the Division Commander.”

Source : "Nanking: Anatomy of an Atrocity". Book by Masahiro Yamamoto, History, p. 232, 2000.
“As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.”
“The child takes in his world as if it were food. And his world nourishes or starves him. Nothing escapes his thirst. Secrets are impossible. He identifies with his surroundings and they live within him unconsciously; it is perhaps for this reason that the small child has been characterized as naturally religious.”

Source : Mary Caroline Richards (1989). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.102, Wesleyan University Press
“Your soul should be as strong as possible when it leaves here for whatever comes next.”

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