"He was so much in love with me that I could have asked him for the moon and stars, and he would have gathered them for me."

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Source : Carolyn Meyer (2002). “Doomed Queen Anne: A Young Royals Book”, p.205, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Carolyn Meyer

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“The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns”
“Determination could easily become obsession.”

Source : N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”, p.189, Hachette UK
“Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.”

Source : Billy Collins (2014). “The Apple That Astonished Paris: Poems”, p.58, University of Arkansas Press
“Even in warmest glow how cold my shadow”
“I went whenever I could, and always my eyes lifted to the hills. I was to find a spiritual and physical satisfaction in climbing mountains and a tranquil mind upon reaching their summits, as though I had escaped from the disappointments and unkindness of life and emerged above them into a new world, a better world.”
“If they had Nautilus on the Concorde, I would work out all the time.”
“You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.”
“I find the concept of intelligent design rather dishonest. One should openly stand up for the existence of Allah, should sincerely stand up for religion, for Islam. Or, if one is a Christian, one should honestly stand up for Christianity.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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