"The land wants you here. I want you here," you called. "Don't you care about that at all?"

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Source : Lucy Christopher (2012). “Stolen”, p.127, Chicken House

Lucy Christopher

#Land Quotes #Care Quotes #Want Quotes

“I am scared of becoming a mother.”
“Eugenics was central to the entire Nazi enterprise, joined with romantic nativist and racist myths of the pure-bred Nordic. The emphasis on 'blood' called for a purifying of the nation's gene pool, so that Germans could regain the nobility and greatness of their genetically pure forebears.”
“I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.”
“We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.”
“Reality was utterly coolheaded and utterly lonely.”
“By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime.”
“What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayingsâ€”they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong. How easy that seems! Has any one ever done so? Never. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through the fire.”
“Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.”

Source : Robert Harris (1998). “Archangel: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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