“Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.”
― Anna Quindlen, quote from Black and Blue
“Maybe when you were a kid you were so unsure of yourself that every school year was a time of reinvention; maybe only adults were stupid enough to think they knew exactly who they were.”
― Anna Quindlen, quote from Black and Blue
“He had not colored the leaves in yet, and the trunk and its branches looked for the moment less like a tree and more like a great brown river, the Nile, the Amazon, the Benedetto and Flynn river of blood, and there at its isthmus was this one child, so that it seemed that all of these people, from Poland, from Italy, from Ireland and the Bronx and Brooklyn, had come together for no other reason than to someday produce Robert Benedetto, in an event as meant, as important as that one in Bethlehem that he had learned about in catechism class at St. Stannie's.”
― Anna Quindlen, quote from Black and Blue
“Doesn´t she have diarrhea of the mouth?”
― Anna Quindlen, quote from Black and Blue
“Count your blessings, my father always said. It shames you, to count yours by the hardships of other people.”
― Anna Quindlen, quote from Black and Blue
“The cold in her makes cold in me.”
― Anna Quindlen, quote from Black and Blue
“I hid my wounds because I was ashamed...but now I know that I was also afraid of being reduced..”
― Anna Quindlen, quote from Black and Blue
“Words, words. They mean nothing, less than nothing. I know.”
― Anna Quindlen, quote from Black and Blue
“...there is a piece of me missing so big that the pain doubles me over, clawing at my gut...”
― Anna Quindlen, quote from Black and Blue
“She wants to be someone else, somewhere else, and I can't blame her.”
― Anna Quindlen, quote from Black and Blue
“There are ways and ways of dying, and some of them leave you walking around.”
― Anna Quindlen, quote from Black and Blue
“...I had enough of real life everyday to last me forever.”
― Anna Quindlen, quote from Black and Blue
“Sometimes you say a word so many times that it loses its meaning...”
― Anna Quindlen, quote from Black and Blue
“stayed because I thought things would get better, or at least not worse.”
― Anna Quindlen, quote from Black and Blue
Anna Quindlen
Born place: in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The United States
Born date July 8, 1952
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“Watson," said he, "if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little over-confident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
“Something, somewhere, somewhen, must have happened differently...
PETUNIA EVANS married Michael Verres, a Professor of Biochemistry at Oxford.
HARRY JAMES POTTER-EVANS-VERRES grew up in a house filled to the brim with books. He once bit a math teacher who didn't know what a logarithm was. He's read Godel, Escher, Bach and Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases and volume one of The Feynman Lectures on Physics. And despite what everyone who's met him seems to fear, he doesn't want to become the next Dark Lord. He was raised better than that. He wants to discover the laws of magic and become a god.
HERMIONE GRANGER is doing better than him in every class except broomstick riding.
DRACO MALFOY is exactly what you would expect an eleven-year-old boy to be like if Darth Vader were his doting father.
PROFESSOR QUIRRELL is living his lifelong dream of teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts, or as he prefers to call his class, Battle Magic. His students are all wondering what's going to go wrong with the Defense Professor this time.
DUMBLEDORE is either insane, or playing some vastly deeper game which involved setting fire to a chicken.
DEPUTY HEADMISTRESS MINERVA MCGONAGALL needs to go off somewhere private and scream for a while.
Presenting:
HARRY POTTER AND THE METHODS OF RATIONALITY
You ain't guessin' where this one's going.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, quote from Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“They are tragic,' said Vetinari, 'and we laugh at their tragedy as we laugh at our own. The painted grin leers out at us from the darkness, mocking our insane belief in order, logic, status, the reality of reality. The mask knows that we are born on the banana skin that leads only to the open manhole cover of doom, and all we can hope for are the cheers of the crowd.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Making Money
“They did nothing—other than subjecting us to complete nothingness. For, as is well known, nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing.”
― Stefan Zweig, quote from Chess Story
“The future knows what things we desire, unless there is something greater in our path that chases us away.”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
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