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Are you going to let me be eaten?' Billy Beecham looks stunned.
'Don't you know that sometimes Beast collectors get collected?' I ask him.
'But you're a virgin.'
'Virgins were never sacrifices,' I say. "Not to this kind of Beast. Virgins are collaborators.


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MARIA SHARAPOVA She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful....
MARIA MONK Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.
MARIA MONTESSORI The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an eve...
MARIA MONTESSORI When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it had ...
MARIA CALLAS Thank you for giving myself back to me, now I am free
MARIA KOSZLER If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the m...
MARIA MONTESSORI The full-blown rose, mid dewy sweets Most perfect dies.
MARIA BROOKS If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of kno...
MARIA MONTESSORI The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within th...
MARIA MONTESSORI The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of anim...
MARIA MONTESSORI I suppose I could admire all these slow Seattle drivers for their safety-mindedness, consideration f...
MARIA SEMPLE I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil eith...
MARIA CALLAS Woman was always the custodian of human sentiment, morality and honour, and in these respects, man a...
MARIA MONTESSORI I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the s...
MARIA MONK I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. I'm ...
MARIA SEMPLE The day on which I received confirmation was a distressing one to me.
MARIA MONK I think everybody has tragedy in their life. Everybody has hurdles in their life. Everybody has toug...
MARIA SHRIVER I do remember when it occurred to me the first time, when I got the idea of painting the way I feel ...
MARIA LASSNIG I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort,...
MARIA MITCHELL If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it...
MARIA BARTIROMO The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomen...
MARIA MONTESSORI As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.
MARIA MITCHELL All the movements of our body are not merely those dictated by impulse or weariness; they are the co...
MARIA MONTESSORI I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjo...
MARIA MITCHELL My dad has some depressive issues, and he's really tough on himself. So sometimes he can say thi...
MARIA BAMFORD Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest th...
MARIA BARTIROMO To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
MARIA MONTESSORI The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.
MARIA MITCHELL If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
MARIA EDGEWORTH An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in m...
MARIA CALLAS "Niagara! wonder of this western world, And half the world beside! hail, beauteous queen Of ...
MARIA BROOKS We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
MARIA MONTESSORI The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The tea...
MARIA MONTESSORI The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and ev...
MARIA MONTESSORI The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years...
MARIA MONTESSORI Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
MARIA MONTESSORI I keep pointing at the child; they keep staring at my finger.
MARIA MONTESSORI Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when h...
MARIA MONTESSORI Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
MARIA SCHELL My biggest dream since I was a kid was to be the woman sneaking on the pirate ship dressed like a ma...
MARIA BELLO Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded.
MARIA BROOKS I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
MARIA CALLAS I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.
MARIA CALLAS I only have nightmares because my dreams have come true.
MARIA BARRAGAN My future is just a mirage. The more I expect from it, it just turns out to be mere reflections.
MARIA K