"...dreadful birds, dressed in red with breasts of silver buttons, and cocked heads and sharp mouths, looking for guilt like berries on a bush."

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Source : Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

Hannah Kent

#Bird Quotes #Guilt Quotes #Buttons Quotes

“My favorite thing to do is ride a bicycle. I ride road bikes. And for me, it's mobile meditation.”
“We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.”
“It is this language of values which I hope to bring to my books. . . . I want to bring values to those who have not been valued, and I want to etch those values in terms of the ideal. Young people need ideals which identify them, and their lives, as central . . . guideposts which tell them what they can be, should be, and indeed are.”
“I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.”

Source : "Proof of Heaven: A Doctor's Experience With the Afterlife". www.newsweek.com. October 8, 2012.
“The American films just have so much more publicity and so much more money behind them that it's so hard to compete.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.”

Source : David Starr Jordan (1910). “The Call of the Nation: A Plea for Taking Politics Out of Politics”
“I've always had a lot of ambivalence about fame and celebrity.”
“Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.”

Source : Sakyong Mipham (2005). “Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies For Modern Life”, p.52, Harmony

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