"For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have."

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Source : "Frog Music review - Emma Donoghue's sophisticated whodunnit" by Alex Preston, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2014.

Emma Donoghue

#Parent Quotes #Normal Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine.”

Source : Robert Fortune (2012). “A Journey to the Tea Countries of China: Including Sung-Lo and the Bohea Hills; with a Short Notice of the East India Company's Tea Plantations in the Himalaya Mountains”, p.329, Cambridge University Press
“Offer God what you have and trust Him to give you what you need.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 18, 2013
“I would like a UK fully engaged in Europe, but I can't decide in place of the British. I see that for the moment they want to be more in retreat.”

Source : "Hollande fires warning shot at Merkel over austerity on eve of EU summit" by Angelique Chrisafis and Ian Traynor, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2012.
“Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a spiritual vitality which for me is more moving and goes deeper than the senses.”

Source : Henry Moore (1986). “Henry Moore”, Hodder & Stoughton
“It ain't braggin' if you really done it.”
“Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.”
“Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.”
“If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.”

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