"The dead do walk and haunt and crawl into your bed at night. Ghosts sneak into your head when you're not looking. Stars line up and volcanoes birth out bits of glass that foretell the future. Poison berries make girls stronger, but sometimes kill them. If you howl at the moon and swear on your blood, anything you desire will be yours. Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch."

-- Laurie Halse Anderson

#Girl Quotes #Stars Quotes #Moon Quotes

“The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge.”
“All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.”

Source : John Henry Newman (1937). “The Newman book of religion”
“Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when you're not writing, READ.”
“Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.”
“Part of the experience of enjoying a tennis match on TV is listening to the observations of an expert commentator -- one who knows the sport, has a genuine passion for the game, respects the viewers' intelligence, knows when to talk and when to keep quiet, can make you laugh and is not afraid to call a spade a spade.”
“Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.”
“Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. Thatâ€™s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the â€œthou shaltsâ€ and â€œthou shouldâ€, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing.”
“Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; ... [and] I have been appointed leader of the Greeks ...”

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