“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’s something I never knew about her. How bizarre that you can know your entire life, see their most hidden pains and hopes, and not know the tiniest detail about them.”
― Kelsey Sutton, quote from Some Quiet Place
“Tú me diste botas espaciales para que pudiera caminar por otros planetas. Sin ti me siento perdido. No sé si tirar a la derecha o la izquierda. No veo el mañana, sólo kilómetros y kilómetros de ayeres. Ahora que te he encontrado, ya no me importa lo que ocurra. Por eso he venido hasta aquí. Por ti. Porque te quiero.”
― Sally Gardner, quote from Maggot Moon
“postwar America. He learned the insurance business by day and braille by night. Before long the VA found him a job with an elderly insurance broker in his neighborhood. Not too long after that, Broderick had established his own insurance”
― Tom Brokaw, quote from The Greatest Generation
“CUSTOMER: I’m looking for a biography to read that’s really interesting. Could you recommend one?
BOOKSELLER: Sure. What books have you read and liked?
CUSTOMER: Well, I really loved Mein Kampf.
BOOKSELLER: . . .
CUSTOMER: Loved is probably not the right word.
BOOKSELLER: No. Probably not.
CUSTOMER: Liked, is probably better. Yes. Liked. I liked it a lot.
BOOKSELLER: . . .”
― Jen Campbell, quote from Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
“The door that would not open no matter how hard you pushed, no matter how long you pounded on it. The screams no one heard. Darkness, hunger, pain. Slow suffocation. One day it occurred to me that I needed to experience the same suffering he had.”
― Yōko Ogawa, quote from Revenge
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