"I think about Old Nick carrying me into the truck, I'm dizzy like I'm going to fall down. "Scared is what you're feeling," says Ma, "but brave is what you're doing." "Huh?" "Scaredybrave." "Scave." Word sandwiches always make her laugh but I wasn't being funny."

-- Emma Donoghue

#Fall Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“There was a time when beheadings were in the public mind because people around the world were getting their heads cut off for various reasons.”
“When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.”
“A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.”
“It would be horrible to be micro-managed! I don't think directors can really micro-manage people. It's just impossible.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“You don't look down at your feet. A lot of comedians want to look down at their feet, but you break contact with the audience.”
“Nothing is more fatiguing than winter, the extreme and unrelenting snow and below zero temperatures, and the seemingly unbearable sameness of the days without sunshine, and the measures one takes - if they're locals, permanent residents - against an environment such as this. And most vulnerable/susceptible are the kids, who have no options other than to scheme and dream themselves into all kinds of trouble.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“What have I done? What horrid crime committed? To me the worst of crimes-outliv'd my liking.”

Source : Colley Cibber (1760). “The careless husband; The rival fools; The lady's last stake; Richard III”, p.334
“The only difference between the narrator of contemporary affairs and the ordinary historian is that moral judgments about the present provoke fiercer reactions and have more immediately practical implications than moral judgments about the past.”

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