Marina Pavlichenko
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“I read everything, both serious and funny. Dickens, Thackeray, Rider Haggard, PG Wodehouse, Chinua Achebe, and the endless wailing of Virginia Woolf, thin terrible books where nothing happened.”
― My Cleaner
― My Cleaner
“The power of the spoken word is the ultimate power, for it can fend off war, preserve the peace, make friends out of enemies, and lovers out of strangers.”
― Lingua Galactica
― Lingua Galactica
“There are two things I hate above all else: trying on bathing suits and job hunting.”
― Gone to Pot
― Gone to Pot
“To pause one’s life for another was a profound gesture of caring. What greater gift can one give another person but time?”
― The 5th Gender
― The 5th Gender
“You know, I grew up down here, and my mama always took me to church when I was a kid. But the church folk you got down here now - especially the white church folk - they scare the bejesus out of me."
"Why is that?"
"Because they're all nuts, Harry. Every damned one of them.”
― The Dead Detective
"Why is that?"
"Because they're all nuts, Harry. Every damned one of them.”
― The Dead Detective
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