"Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. Its gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, its the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children."

-- Hanif Kureishi

#Falling In Love Quotes #Children Quotes #Husband Quotes

“If you are focusing your anger at government, you are focusing your anger at all of us. Government is just a personification of this country.”
“It is only when a woman is economically empowered that she can negotiate at household level with her husband about the number of children that body of hers can have.”
“I was born out of classical music.”
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”

Source : Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.41, Open Road Media
“Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make the happiness of the rudest handicraftsman as well as that of the ideal craftsman of the spirit? Because, probably, at his highest elevation, the poet needs no human intercourse; but he finds it dreary to descend, and be a stranger.”
“In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible field of that last enormous, unanswerable question.”
“Although we tend to think of the brain as a discrete organ - a lump of squidgy tissue - it is better to think of it as part of an elaborate network of nervous tissue that reaches out to every single part of the body.”

Source : Tim Birkhead (2012). “Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird”, p.13, A&C Black
“To be left alone in the wide world with scarcely a friend,--this makes the sadness which, striking its pang into the minds of the young and the affectionate, teaches them too soon to watch and interpret the spirit-signs of their own hearts.”

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