“—Shush sweet baby, I said, so tired, and mixed her gripe water with whiskey and dill weed, but it did no good, so I seen now why lullabies was all about cradles falling from trees, oh dear, when the wind blows, down will come baby, whoops too bad, but at least it’s quiet.”
― Kate Manning, quote from My Notorious Life
“Lust was a weed, a nightshade vine, a nettle, impossible to uproot as the mugwort I pulled in the fields of Illinois, so while in the daylight I was a flower of virtuous resolution, at night I was motherless in a cold kitchen, starved for the warm arms of a sweetheart and pretty words of approval.”
― Kate Manning, quote from My Notorious Life
“who dwells in the past robs the present,”
― Kate Manning, quote from My Notorious Life
“In this time, I learned for myself as my teacher predicted, how it is these two extremes - that we are transported by love and jailed by it - that are ever impossible for mothers to reconcile.”
― Kate Manning, quote from My Notorious Life
“You could eat the air in the place, so thick with bread and warmth that it stang our cheeks.”
― Kate Manning, quote from My Notorious Life
“The newspapers next day wrote that "with much hesitation the witness proceeded to recount the treatment she received from Madame DeBeausacq, the details of which are so extremely disgusting and filthy we forbear to give publicity to them." Let me say right now the papers was wrong on them details. The details are of Human Kindness. These judges, these police, these reporters, are squeamish low bloodworms, half of them, consorting with cancan girls. How I know this is because them girls come to me. So do their society mistresses. Also, their wives. I know them, daughters of Judges, sisters of Prosecutors. But these robes of the law did not wish to hear the filthy details of their own sex's duplicity, or dwell on the disgusting filthy things they did THEMSELVES, nor see the fair face of the ones they punish for their own masculine debauchery.”
― Kate Manning, quote from My Notorious Life
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“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”
― Malala Yousafzai, quote from I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
“Attraverso le inferriate della sua individualità, l’uomo fissa senza speranza le mura di cinta delle circostanze esteriori, finché arriva la morte e lo richiama a casa, alla sua libertà… Individualità! Ah, quello che si è, che si può e che si ha, sembra povero, grigio, modesto e noioso; ma quello che non si è, non si può e non si ha, è proprio quello che guardiamo con invidia struggente, che diventa amore per paura che diventi odio. Io porto in me il germe, la radice, la possibilità per tutte le attitudini e le attività di questo mondo… Dove potrei essere, se non fossi qui? Chi, che cosa, come potrei essere se non fossi me stesso, se questa mia persona non mi chiudesse, se non separasse la mia conoscenza da tutti coloro che sono me! L’organismo! Cieca, sconsiderata, deplorevole eruzione dell’incalzante volontà! Meglio, per davvero, che questa volontà si liberi nella notte senza spazio e senza tempo, invece di languire in prigione, appena illuminata da una tremula e vacillante fiammella dell’intelletto!”
― Thomas Mann, quote from Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
“On the video monitor, they saw Ted Fielding slap the polished sphere and shout, "Open! Open Sesame! Open up, you son of a bitch!"
The sphere did not respond.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Sphere
“To know a little about a lot.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, quote from Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else--the cold, and where he'd go in it--was outside, for a while anyway.”
― Raymond Carver, quote from What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
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