“Oh, Anya! Let's have an intense spiritual relationship for no believable reason!”
― Vera Brosgol, quote from Anya's Ghost
“You may look normal like everyone else, but you're not. Not on the inside.”
― Vera Brosgol, quote from Anya's Ghost
“Why can't I just Google it like everything else?! I hate you public library system!”
― Vera Brosgol, quote from Anya's Ghost
“I don't think murder is an appropriate reaction to disappointment.”
― Vera Brosgol, quote from Anya's Ghost
“I could lose myself forever in that dark hair and those sweet love handles.”
― Vera Brosgol, quote from Anya's Ghost
“Impressing a bunch of snooty teenagers is a pretty lame life goal to have.”
― Vera Brosgol, quote from Anya's Ghost
“People might think that five-year-olds can't be cruel, but I have some strong evidence to the contrary".”
― Vera Brosgol, quote from Anya's Ghost
“The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from The Walk
“Nor am I greatly moved by jocular inquiries such as, 'Where will you put all the mosquitoes?' -- a question to be answered on its own level by pointing out that, if the worst came to worst, a heaven for mosquitoes and a hell for men could very conveniently be combined.”
― C.S. Lewis, quote from The Problem of Pain
“Rakkety Rakkety Rakkety Tam, the drums are beatin’ braw. Rakkety Rakkety Rakkety Tam, are ye marchin’ off tae war? A warrior from the borders came, a buckler o’er his shoulder, a claymore swingin’ at his side, there’s no’ a beast who’s bolder! O Rakkety Tam has sold his sword, Ah scarce believe he’s done it. He swore an oath untae a fool, who took his pledge upon it!”
― Brian Jacques, quote from Rakkety Tam
“I believe in God and the whole business but I love women best, music and science next, whiskey next, God fourth, and my fellowman hardly at all.”
― Walker Percy, quote from Love in the Ruins
“Maybe the Europeans once thought the earth was flat, but the Eskimos always knew it was round. One only needed to look at the earth’s relatives, the sun and the moon, to know that.”
― Jean Craighead George, quote from Julie of the Wolves
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