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“She adjusted her body weight and caught his eyes, her gaze shiny and with a tinge of sadness. “My grandmother told me once that the world is filled with ghosts. The longer we live the more ghosts will haunt us.” She paused glancing at her palms. “But they’re here to remind us we are alive. That our hearts beat, blood runs through our veins, we breath air into our lungs.”
― The Russian Ink
― The Russian Ink
“The boy registered them but didn’t answer, already turned inward. He was counting backward from a thousand in multiples of four while working multiplication tables of seven until they met.”
― Black Fire
― Black Fire
“And yet had not a pagan the right to be a pagan?”
― Roots: The Saga of an American Family
― Roots: The Saga of an American Family
“Jamie: The only kind of deal that I can make is with money, and we haven't got any of that.
Mrs. Frankweiler: You are very poor indeed if that is the only kind of deal you can make”
― From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Mrs. Frankweiler: You are very poor indeed if that is the only kind of deal you can make”
― From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
“Very much. Very much a melting pot. You don’t draw lines anymore. There’s no such thing as ‘bloody this’ or ‘bloody that’. There’s no such thing anymore. We all Aussies. And the Aussies respect us as Aussies. I am accepted as an Australian and I feel like one too. - Ibolya Cabrero-Kovacs, Hungarian Freedom Fighter”
― Suffering, Redemption and Triumph: The first wave of post-war Australian immigrants 1945-66
― Suffering, Redemption and Triumph: The first wave of post-war Australian immigrants 1945-66
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