“There are countless moments in the average life when you have to decide whether to open yourself up or bury yourself deep. In love, at work, among your family, with friends, there are moments when you have to decide whether you are ready to reveal your true self.”
― M.J. Arlidge, quote from Eeny Meeny
“Trust is a fragile thing—hard to earn, easy to lose.”
― M.J. Arlidge, quote from Eeny Meeny
“Amy would never shoot anyone, least of all Sam. She’d never even held a gun before. This wasn’t America.”
― M.J. Arlidge, quote from Eeny Meeny
“Men were supposed to be dissociative about sex. Able to turn off their emotions and think with their dick. But Mark had never been like that.”
― M.J. Arlidge, quote from Eeny Meeny
“How long does it take to die of starvation? Too long.”
― M.J. Arlidge, quote from Eeny Meeny
M.J. Arlidge
Born place: in London, The United Kingdom
Born date October 10, 1974
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“It struck me that Lee was in many ways our true hero. Lee was the one who did the dirtiest jobs, quietly, without fuss, without going into big emotional scenes. He was so efficient, so reliable, so brave. Whenever we fell short, he made up the gap. I'm not just talking about the red hot moments, when enemy soldiers were shooting at us, when we were within a moment of death. I'm talking about the sourer times too, when we were so tired we could hardly remember to breathe, or we were so bored we'd pick at each other just for something to do, or so distressed we'd wish a soldier would come along and blow us into oblivion with an M16. At all those times Lee stood strong. He was like the Wirrawee grain silo. You could see the grain silo from miles away, tall and reliable. It stood for Wirrawee, and it gave you a safe comforting feeling to know it was there. That was how I'd felt about Lee during the war.”
― John Marsden, quote from The Other Side of Dawn
“Life is a school of the spirit, Aidan,” Ruadh intoned with gentle insistence. “Learning is our soul’s requirement, and”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, quote from Byzantium
“الشخص الحذر الاقتنائي يشعر بالأمان, غير انه بالضرورة يعيش في خطر كبير, فهو يعتمد في وجوده على ما يملك من مال ومكانة وحيثية, اي على شيء خارجه, فما الذي يبقى منه إن هو فقد ما يملك ؟ ذلك أن كل ما يملكه الإنسان أو يقتنيه يمكن أن يفقده. وغني عن الذكر أن الشخص إذا فقد ممتلكاته فإنه يفقد ايضا مكانته واصدقائه, كذلك يمكن في اي لحظة, طال الزمن ام قصر, ان يفقد حياته ذاتها.
إذا كنت انا هو ما املك, ثم فقدت ما املك, فمن اكون ؟ لن يبقى سوى شاهد مهزوم متضائل مثير للشفقة .. شاهد على اسلوب حياة خاطئ. فحيث إني يمكن أن افقد ما املك فأنا بالضرورة في قلق وخوف دائمين من امكان حدوث هذا, انا في خوف من اللصوص والتقلبات الاقتصادية والثورات والامراض والموت, كذلك انا في خوف من الحب والحرية والتطور والتغير. وفي خوف من المجهول, هكذا دائما في خوف وقلق, اعاني من امراض الذعر والوسوسة المزمنة, ليس فقط من فقدان الصحة, وانما من فقدان اي شيء آخر املكه, هكذا اتحول الى كائن مشغول بالدفاع عن نفسه, موسوس وحيد تتملكني الحاجة لامتلاك مزيد من الاشياء التي انشد فيها مزيدا من الحماية.”
― Erich Fromm, quote from To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
“As long as you are dreaming, there is always a way out”
― Paul Auster, quote from Oracle Night
“It reminded me of talking, how what is said is never quite what is thought, and what is heard is never quite what was said. It wasn't much in the way of comfort, but everything has a little failure in it, and we still make do somehow.”
― Kevin Powers, quote from The Yellow Birds
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