Quotes
Authors
Katie MacAlister
"You taste of the cool water that hides deep in a stream. You taste of the night air, soft and scented and mysterious. The taste of you drives me wild. I want to be with you, be inside you, shout to the world that you are mine at the same time I want to keep you hidden where you will exist only for me. You make me feel invincible, little bird." --
Source : Katie Macalister (2008). “Playing With Fire: A Novel of the Silver Dragons”, p.177, Penguin
Katie MacAlister
#Night Quotes
#Air Quotes
#Water Quotes
“There is no precedent of a civilian population, displaced by a war that their leadership started and lost, claiming a right to return to territory that they failed to conquer.”
“An island can be dreadful for someone from outside. Everything is complete, and everyone has his obstinate, sure and self-sufficient place. Within their shores, everything functions according to rituals that are as hard as rock from repetition, and at the same time they amble through their days as whimsically and casually as if the world ended at the horizon.”
“No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere.”
Source : "Lucile". Book by Owen Meredith, Part II, Canto VI, 1860.
“My driving force is spirituality.”
“My life honestly isn't as weird as people think it is. I work longer hours, maybe I have a bit more money, but fundamentally, I'm not really that different.”
“Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.”
“When I wrote the story ["The Cartographers"], I'd just gone through a breakup with a woman I'd loved dearly. Without this other person in my life, the memories we'd shared often felt like phantoms. Who was this person I once loved? Did she still really exist? The answer, on a metaphysical level, was that this person didn't still exist. She'd gone on to become a different person, an individual with new hopes and dreams which no longer involved me.”
Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“I faced a number of challenges whilst I built Biocon. Initially, I had credibility challenges where I couldn't get banks to fund me; I couldn't recruit people to work for a woman boss. Even in the businesses where I had to procure raw materials, they didn't want to deal with women.”
Source : "Women at Work: Biocon Founder on Philanthropy, Sexism and Politics". Interview with Atish Patel, blogs.wsj.com. June 18, 2013.