"Sometimes fear made you angry. Perhaps after years anger cooled, like a sword taken from a forge. Perhaps in the end you were left with something very cold and very sharp."

-- Frances Hardinge

#Taken Quotes #Years Quotes #Cold Quotes

“The thing with stand-up is, I really enjoyed it, but I kind of loathed it as well. It makes me feel physically sick.”
“You ought to have seen FrÃ©dÃ©ric with his monocle, his greying whiskers, his calm demeanour, carving his plump quack-quack, trussed and already flamed, throwing it into the pan, preparing the sauce, salting and peppering like Claude Monet's paintings, with the seriousness of a judge and the precision of a mathematician, and opening up, with a sure hand, in advance, every perspective of taste.”
“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”
“In Godâ€™s great plan, every detail is important, even yours, even my humble little witness, even the hidden witness of those who live their faith with simplicity in everyday family relationships, work relationships, friendships. There are the saints of every day, the â€œhiddenâ€ saints, a sort of â€œmiddle class of holinessâ€ to which we can all belong.”
“I don't think the tabloids find me very interesting.”
“I never knew a man who got so hurt in his pocketbook.”

Source : Dorothy West (1996). “The Living Is Easy”, p.7, Feminist Press at CUNY
“The thirst to know and understand a large and liberal discontent.”

Source : William Watson (1899). “The Collected Poems of William Watson”
“Jack believed in somethingâ€”he believed in white witches and sleighs pulled by wolves, and in the world the trees obscured. He believed that there were better things in the woods. He believed in palaces of ice and hearts to match. Hazel had, too. Hazel had believed in woodsmen and magic shoes and swanskins and the easy magic of a compass. She had believed that because someone needing saving they were savable. She had believed in these things, but not anymore. And this is why she had to rescue Jack, even though he might not hear what she had to tell him.”

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