"Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father."

-- Abraham Verghese

#Father Quotes #Comfort Quotes #Ears Quotes

“And when you wake, you will fly away, holding tight to the legs of all your angels. Goodbye, my love, into your blue, blue eyes.”
“Hamburgers! The corner-stone of any nutritious breakfast.”
“Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.”
“I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.”
“'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide.”
“Vampires don't live at all," she points out, "neither do we." She has me there. "Fine, I'll go. But when Kurt leads his minions in a march around the cemetary with our heads on sticks, don't say I didn't warn you.”

Source : Cynthia Leitich Smith (2010). “Eternal”, p.19, Candlewick Press
“Trying to be Sherlock Holmes is like trying to catch an arrow in mid-flight.”

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