“From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”— Winston S. Churchill Related Quotes “She spoke with the usual cadences of the young: sentences curling upward at the end, all statements fading into a smoky, implied question mark, as though nothing could be said with any reasonable certainty.”— Laura Kalpakian “When I learn the meaning of a word, I know the word; but when I say to myself, ‘I know the word,’ there comes a reflection of the word back from the mirror of my mind, making a second impression, and after that I am at least not so likely to forget it…“When, then, I think about the impression that the word makes upon me, how it is affecting me with the knowledge of itself, then I am what I should call self-conscious of the word—conscious not only that I know the word, but that I know the phenomena of knowing the word—conscious of what I am as regards my knowing of the word.”— George MacDonald “I found that reading gave me a certain relief – one form of escapism that seemed safe, and maybe more than safe. I felt saner – less fragmented- after reading for an hour.location 3234”— Alena Graedon