"Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place."

-- Barbara Kingsolver

“Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?”
“There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself, that it is all safely in the past and forgotten about, but the very fact that we can tell ourselves that it is forgotten proves that it is not.”
“I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or the school's curriculum. It should be to look at the idea that, maybe, the child didn't work hard enough.”
“Did he happen to select a color too?" "Blue." "Blue?" Victoria burst out, prepared to do physical battle for white. Madame nodded, her finger thoughtfully pressed to her lips, her own hand plunked upon her waist. "Yes, blue. Ice blue. He said you are glorious in that color-'a titian-haired angel,' he said" Victoria abruptly decided ice blue was a lovely color to be married in.”
“I'm not myself religious but have no wish to insult or denigrate those who are.”
“... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day.”

Source : Alessandro Baricco (1998). “Silk”, Vintage
“We have now armed to such an extent as the world has never before seen.”
“People say I'm henpecked. Well, let them say it.”

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