Alison Pick quotes

Alison Pick quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Time is a snow globe; you shake it and everything changes.”
-- Alison Pick

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“Bro Snow said I would live to see the time when brothers and sisters would marry each other in this church. All our horror at such an union was due entirely to prejudice and the offspring of such union would be healthy and pure as any other. These were the decided views of Pres. Young when alive, for Bro. S. talked to him freely on this matter.”
“Do you remember the time we met? The wind blew the snow about on the outside, the train moved, stopped, and then moved some more. It took us five hours to reach Tokyo, but I wasn't bored one bit. I didn't really get to hear so much about Nana. But I knew I would have loved... To hear what Nana had to say about herself. - Nana Komatsu”
“Time is a snow globe; you shake it and everything changes.”
“With watercolour, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow shifting through the trees or over the ice of a small pond or against a windowpane. Watercolour perfectly expresses the free side of my nature.”
“We had our thing. It is a really good memory but now we're older. Things change.”
“It's frightening how much things change in seventy-one years.”
“Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.”
“Everything changes, even stone.”

Source : Joachim Pissarro, Claude Monet (1990). “Monet's cathedral: Rouen 1892-1894”, Pavilion Books, Limited
“The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.”
“Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.”

Source : Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.94, Pan Macmillan

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