This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls is not to read poetry, seems to be dangerous if not tragic.
I wish you could be kissed, Jane, ' he said. 'Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.' He flailed an arm toward the stars.
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Maggie Stiefvater
Is this thing safe?"" Safe as life, " Gansey replied.
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Maggie Stiefvater
Eccolo! ” he exclaimed. At the same moment the ground gave way, and with a cry she fell out of the wood. Light and beauty enveloped her. She had fallen on to a little open terrace, which was covered with violets from end to end.“...
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E.m. Forster
Adam understood, then, that Gansey and Blue’s awe changed this place. Ronan and Adam may have seen this place as magical, but Gansey and Blue’s wonder made it holy.
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Maggie Stiefvater
Derisively, Ronan said, 'No. The ancient Greeks didn't have a word for Blue.'Everyone at the table looked at him.' What the hell, Ronan?' said Adam.'It's hard to imagine, " Gansey mused, 'how this evidently successful classical education never seems to make it into your school...
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Maggie Stiefvater
More Quotes By Joseph Brodsky
Life–the way it really is–is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse
For darkness restores what light cannot repair.
...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.
... Now to die of griefwould mean, I'm afraid, to die belatedly, while latecomersare unwelcome, particularly in the future....
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
