"In water, like in booksâ€”you can leave your life."

-- Lidia Yuknavitch

#Book Quotes #Water Quotes

“If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness.”
“You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.”
“If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.”
“My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters.”
“When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.”

Source : Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Historian”, p.19, Hachette UK
“Small, short-sighted, blonde, barbed - she reminds me of a bright little hedgehog.”
“The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.”
“Nothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse.”

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