Maria McCann quotes

“Speak to me, Jacob, do not play the tyrant. Speak to me.”
-- Maria McCann

Source : Maria McCann (2001). “As meat loves salt”, HarperCollins

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“I followed him up the stairs. I was a fornicator, of unnatural appetite, in thrall to an Atheist. I repeated the words in my head and tried to feel the shock of them, but they remained strange and cruel, far removed from Ferris and me. It was simpler to say I was in love.”
-- Maria McCann

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“But what virtue I do have is in me and of me. Men deny the good that comes from themselves, calling it God. So do they with their won evil, calling it the Devil.”
-- Maria McCann

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“There had been a frozen mist here, and the trees were spun into feathers. Their fragile brilliance made me wonder why, into the spotlessness of Creation, God had seen fit to introduce soiling, twisting, rampaging, Man.”
-- Maria McCann

Source : Maria McCann (2010). “The Wilding”, p.263, Faber & Faber

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“I wondered at him, so wise and so foolish, to have lived with me all these months and not know that the worst storms break inside a man.”
-- Maria McCann

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“Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

“If you are serious, don't play with my heart, it makes me furious.”

Source : Song: Tell It Like It is, Album: The Very Best of Aaron Neville, 2006

“I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's your homeland or when you're traveling. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life.”

“The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.”

Source : "Toy boys r us" by Alun Palmer, www.mirror.co.uk. March 26, 2010.

“Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1885). “The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World”

“We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order.”

“Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.”

“When a pure devotee or spiritual master speak, what he says should be accepted as having been directly spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the Parampara System.”

“Now everyone has a license to speak, it’s a question of who gets heard.”

“Speak the language of the person you want to become.”

Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.93, Simon and Schuster