“Just because you don't know everything don't mean you know nothing.”
― Karen Cushman, quote from The Midwife's Apprentice
“. . . she dreamed of nothing, for she hoped for nothing and expected nothing. It was as cold and dark inside her as out in the frosty night.”
― Karen Cushman, quote from The Midwife's Apprentice
“She was not as stupid as some I have had, and better company, but still perhaps her going was for the best. She was not what I needed."
"Because I failed," whispered Alyce in the shadows.
"Because she gave up," continued the midwife. "I need an apprentice who can do what I tell her, take what I give her, who can try and risk and fail and try again and not give up...”
― Karen Cushman, quote from The Midwife's Apprentice
“I know what I want. A full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.”
― Karen Cushman, quote from The Midwife's Apprentice
“Alyce," she breathed. Alyce sounded clean and smart. You could love someone maned Alyce. She looked back at the face in the water. "This is me, Alyce." It was right. So the newly called Alyce shifted the pack on her shoulders, and with her head back and bare feet solid on the ground, she headed back to the midwife's cottage and never noticed when it grew dark, for heat and light were within her.”
― Karen Cushman, quote from The Midwife's Apprentice
Karen Cushman
Born place: in Chicago, Illinois, The United States
Born date October 4, 2018
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“Early next morning there was a sound as of chains being drawn roughly overhead; the steady heart of the Euphrosyne slowly ceased to beat; and Helen, poking her nose above deck, saw a stationary castle upon a stationary hill. They had dropped anchor in the mouth of the Tagus, and instead of cleaving new waves perpetually, the same waves kept returning and washing against the sides of the ship.”
― Virginia Woolf, quote from The Voyage Out
“everything that passes unattempted is impossible.” At”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, quote from The Illearth War
“Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.”
― Aimee Bender, quote from The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
“The memory of that day in the dump made him a little sentimental for his father - they had had some good times together, and Buddy had made a decent meal in the end. Really, what else could you ask from a parent?”
― Joe Hill, quote from 20th Century Ghosts
“... sunetul ne invadează, ne împinge de la spate, ne târăște după el, trece prin noi. Își ia zborul, părăsește pământul, dar atât pentru a ne deschide spre un cosmos, cât și pentru a ne face să cădem într-o gaură neagră. Ne trezește dorința de moarte. Având cea mai mare forță de deteritorializare, el operează, în egală măsură, și reteritorializările cele mai masive, cele mai abrutizante, cele mai redundante. Extaz și hipnoză. Nu faci un popor să se miște cu ajutorul culorilor. Drapelele nu au nici o putere fără trompete.”
― Gilles Deleuze, quote from A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
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