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Placing Quotes (page 95)

Those Montana Indians were so tough that white people were scared of them. Can you imagine a place where white people are scared of Indians and not the other way around? That's Montana. Sherman Alexie
The youngest, dumpiest, dullest of the four dull and dumpy daughters whom Mrs. Van Osburgh, with unsurpassed astuteness, had "placed" one by one in enviable niches of existence! Edith Wharton
How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want. Barbara Kingsolver
The best artifact was the calendar of the ancients, a great carved piece of stone as big as a kitchen, circular, bolted to the wall like a giant clock. In the center was an angry face looking out, as if he'd come through that stone from some other place to have a look at us, and not very pleased about it. Barbara Kingsolver
You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims. Roberto Bolano
a bad map is worse than no map at all for it engendered in the traveler a false confidence and might easily cause him to set aside these instincts which would otherwise guide him if he would but place himself in their care. He said that to follow a false map was to invite disaster. He gestured at the sketching in the dirt. As if to invite them to behold its futility. The second man on the bench nodded his agreement in this and said that the map in question was a folly and that the dogs in the... Cormac McCarthy
Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. Getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place. Paulo Coelho
Diana Wynne Jones quote: "I am not,' he said, 'having that lummock-de-troll glunching..."
I am not,' he said, 'having that lummock-de-troll glunching about this place! Trod on all my tomatoes, he did, last year. Diana Wynne Jones
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place. Mark Twain
In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun. This place will warm me, feed me and care for me. I will hold on to this pulse against other rhythms. The world will come and go in the tide of a day but here is her hand with my future in its palm. Jeanette Winterson
Isabelle Eberhardt quote: "A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and..."
A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places. Isabelle Eberhardt
Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass."Like somehow we're running out of time. Chuck Palahniuk
Christina G. Rossetti quote: "Fallen from sonship, beggared of grace, Grant me. Father, a..."
Fallen from sonship, beggared of grace, Grant me. Father, a servant’s place. Christina G. Rossetti
In the midst of all dwells the Sun. For who could set this luminary in another or better place in this most glorious temple, than whence he can at one and the same time brighten the whole. Nicolaus Copernicus
I put my head out of my window and see how much the wind’s knife wants to slice it off. On this unseen guillotine, I’ve placed the eyeless head of all my desires. Federico Garcia Lorca

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