"I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes."

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Source : "Dear Austen". Book by Nina Bawden, www.theguardian.com. 2005.

Nina Bawden

#Husband Quotes #Shoes Quotes #Track Quotes

“God, the Master Weaver. He stretches the yarn and intertwines the colors, the ragged twine with the velvet strings, the pains with the pleasures. Nothing escapes his reach.”
“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.”
“I still don't know how I got to the big leagues because I wasn't that good.”
“What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours?”

Source : Lauren Kate (2010). “Fallen”, Random House
“The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.”

Source : Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Miles Between”, p.24, Macmillan
“The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.”
“We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston. We feel that we are highly blessed.”
“I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because what we're really doing is trying to establish their character, and good acting to me is about reacting.”

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