"What happened?" Bailey asks. "That is somewhat difficult to explain," Tsukiko answers. "It is a long and complicated story." "And you're not going to tell me, are you?" She tilts her head a bit ... "No, I am not," she says. "Great," Bailey mutters under his breath... "The bonfire exploded? How?" "Remember when I said it was difficult to explain? That has not changed."

-- Erin Morgenstern

#Long Quotes #Stories Quotes #Tilt Quotes

“Exploit a subject or a theme to its greatest potential by bringing all possible reference to bear - then put aside the reference and create again using the potential of your unfettered imagination.”
“If fate is a millstone, we are the grist. There is nothing we can do. So I wish for strength. If I cannot protect them from the wheel,then give me a strong blade, and enough strength, to shatter fate”
“I am incredibly proud of the many journalists I have worked with throughout my career and the great campaigns that we have fought and won.”

Source : "Watch Rebekah Brooks' emotional speech in which she says she feels ''vindicated'' by phone hacking verdicts" by Jason Beattie, www.mirror.co.uk. June 26, 2014.
“I don't go to parties to meet men. I go to parties to stand in a corner and watch people.”
“I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes.”
“It's your thoughts behind the words you speak that create your attitude.”
“The equilibrium you admire in me is an unstable one, difficult to maintain. My inner life was split early between the call of the Ancestors and the call of Europe, between the exigencies of black-African culture and those of modern life.”
“Nothing is safe [in Lebanon], as simple as that.”

Source : "Israel: No Targets in Lebanon Are Immune", www.foxnews.com. July 13, 2006.

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