"As a child I always steered clear of science fiction, but in the autumn of 1977, the bow-wave of publicity for the first Star Wars movie had already reached me, so I was eager for anything science-fictional."

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Source : "Philip Reeve: 'I can't even drive a car, let alone an inter-dimensional phone box'". Interview with Patrick, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2013.

Philip Reeve

#Stars Quotes #Children Quotes #War Quotes

“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.”
“My family are really happy here at Liverpool and I am prepared to have my daughter with a Scouse accent, even though it is sometimes a problem for me.”
“We have lost a true public servant with the passing of Alan Nunnelee, who dedicated so much of his life to improving Mississippi, my thoughts and prayers are with Tori and the entire Nunnelee family at this sad time.”

Source : "Rep. Alan Nunnelee dead at 56" by Jeremy Diamond, Alex Jaffe, www.cnn.com. February 6, 2015.
“The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.”
“That's true, because I'm a photographer now.”
“If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me”
“God dwells within you, as you.”
“You know how a river goes on and on? That's my love for you.”

Source : Beth Kephart (2007). “Undercover”, HarperTeen

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