“Als je eenmaal hebt geaccepteerd dat niemand je ooit zal begrijpen en je hebt dat overweldigende gevoel van eenzaamheid overwonnen, dan heeft het wel iets prettigs, eerlijk gezegd. Jij bent de enige deskundige in je eigen kleine wereldje, en je kunt doen waar je zin in hebt.”
― Sophie Hannah, quote from Hurting Distance
“Fazemos tanto mal a nós e aos outros quando nos ofendemos quanto ao ofendermos.”
― Sophie Hannah, quote from Hurting Distance
“Para qualquer um que experimentou brutalidade deliberada, a menor gentileza se torna para sempre um choque depois.”
― Sophie Hannah, quote from Hurting Distance
“Algumas vezes você tem de ser corajosa e fazer algo que não se encaixa no padrão geral apenas para sacudir um pouco as coisas, para fazer acontecer.”
― Sophie Hannah, quote from Hurting Distance
“Pessoas demais ficam olhando e não fazem nada para ajudar pessoas com problemas.”
― Sophie Hannah, quote from Hurting Distance
“Em vez de desperdiçar toda a minha energia reagindo às muitas coisas ruins que tinham me acontecido, ia correr atrás de uma coisa boa.”
― Sophie Hannah, quote from Hurting Distance
“Há muita incoerência sem sentido no mundo, a maior parte fruto de estupidez.”
― Sophie Hannah, quote from Hurting Distance
“So now, I look at these stories, and almost like a photograph snapped at a party, I find all manner of signs and indications of who I was. Was? Yes, was. I look at these pieces and I don't think the man who wrote them is alive in me anymore. Writing an introduction to the tenth anniversary edition of Weaveworld last year I remarked on much of the same thing: the man who'd written that book was no longer around. He'd died in me, was buried in me. We are our own graveyards; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived, and if we're neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.”
― Clive Barker, quote from Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three
“Nicholas lay with his hands on his chest, thinking how hollow it felt, like an empty gourd. He had never missed having a family, though he had wanted one all his life.”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, quote from The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict
“It's very hard to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And no matter where you run into it, prejudice obscures the truth.”
― Reginald Rose, quote from Twelve Angry Men
“Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from The Undomestic Goddess
“If a man has been your teacher for a day, you should treat him as your father for the rest of his life.”
― Wu Cheng'en, quote from Monkey: The Journey to the West
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