"What happened to you?â€ Jace looked affronted. â€œWhat happened to me?â€ Alec shook him, not lightly. â€œYou said you were going for a walk! What kind of walk takes six hours?â€ â€œA long one?â€ Jace suggested."

-- Cassandra Clare

#Long Quotes #Six Quotes #Kind Quotes

“Thereâ€™s only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire.”
“There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.”

Source : Iran-Contra Hearings Closing Statement, www.danielkinouyeinstitute.org. August 03, 1987.
“I've always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will.”
“The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.”
“When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.”
“Mencheres slid through the water toward her, drawn by the same inexorable compulsion that led moths to dance with flames. He'd had several lifetimes' worth of reason, cold machinations, and, ultimately, emptiness. Perhaps the moths knew what he didn't, that the joy of the flame was worth the price of destruction.”
“It's still hard for me to talk about the day I visited a shelter for children who were victims of a domestic-violence household. The kinds of abuse they had suffered, and what it had done to them physically and emotionally ?- I don't have words for what I saw. This has to stop.”
“Commas, like nuns, often travel in pairs.”

Source : Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.86, W. W. Norton & Company

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