“All you can do in this life is follow your dreams. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.”
― David Walliams, quote from Gangsta Granny
“Adults always ask kids how they are doing at school. The one subject kids absolutely hate talking about. You don't even want to talk about school when you are at school.”
― David Walliams, quote from Gangsta Granny
“Unfortunately for Ben and Granny, it turns out that ancient poo does still pong.)”
― David Walliams, quote from Gangsta Granny
“Just to check she’s not going out.” “Going”
― David Walliams, quote from Gangsta Granny
“(Unfortunately for Ben and Granny, it turns out that ancient poo does still pong.) After”
― David Walliams, quote from Gangsta Granny
“fact, if there was a fire in their house, and Mum could only save either a sparkly gold tap-shoe once worn by Flavio Flavioli (the shiny, tanned dancer and heartbreaker from Italy who appeared on every series of the hit TV show) or her only child, Ben thought she would probably go for the shoe.”
― David Walliams, quote from Gangsta Granny
“the last few miles of the Atlantic Ocean back to England with all of the jewellery hidden in her knickers. Granny”
― David Walliams, quote from Gangsta Granny
“Paula, there is something you need to know with absolute lucidity. It is your choices that have brought you to this point. You are here because of your actions. You will be leaving because of your actions. I am simply the messenger.”
― Laury Falter, quote from Reckoning
“For our kind, there's always the burning to be more. (...) that is why true human beings feel more pain. Because we are more, but it's never quite enough - never.”
― David Zindell, quote from The Broken God
“What marriage doesn't involve uncountable accretions, a language of gestures, a sense of recognition sharp as a toothache? Unhappy, sure. What couple isn't unhappy, at least part of the time? But how can the divorce rate be, as they say, skyrocketing? How miserable would you have to get to be able to bear the actual separation, to go off and live your life so utterly unrecognized?”
― Michael Cunningham, quote from By Nightfall
“Such is the disconcerting miracle of good acting; at its best it implicitly challenges our faith in who we are, who anyone is.”
― Melissa Febos, quote from Whip Smart: A Memoir
“Other than when I’m driving, I don’t try to look too far ahead, and once I got out, I never wanted to look back.”
― quote from Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
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