Quotes from Nothing Left to Lose

“All things worth having are worth fighting for.”
― Kirsty Moseley, quote from Nothing Left to Lose

“Most people would say that being in love was the best feeling in the world, and to some degree, I would agree with them, but not when all you could think about was losing it or watching something awful happen so that your heart shatters into a thousand tiny, jagged little pieces. No, being in love was more frightening than gratifying.”
― Kirsty Moseley, quote from Nothing Left to Lose

“Because I’m in love with you. Because I love my life with you in it. Because a world where someone as special as you lives, can’t be the horrible place I once thought it was.”
― Kirsty Moseley, quote from Nothing Left to Lose

“Don’t worry, Ashton, he can’t hurt me anymore, no one can. I have nothing left to lose,” I said honestly.”
― Kirsty Moseley, quote from Nothing Left to Lose

“I’ve given you the power to kill me and you don’t even know it.”
― Kirsty Moseley, quote from Nothing Left to Lose

“What we want and what happens are two different thing entirely.”
― Kirsty Moseley, quote from Nothing Left to Lose

“The alcohol induced memory loss is a form of protection from all the stupid things you did the night before.”
― Kirsty Moseley, quote from Nothing Left to Lose

“All things worth having are worth fighting for,”
― Kirsty Moseley, quote from Nothing Left to Lose

“This girl and this baby were my world, and the only things I needed out of life. I just hoped I could somehow make them as happy as they both made me.”
― Kirsty Moseley, quote from Nothing Left to Lose

“Well, he told me you were a flirt who would try and get me into bed, but damn, I didn’t realise you’d start before nine in the morning.”
― Kirsty Moseley, quote from Nothing Left to Lose

“In the moonlight, he looked devastatingly beautiful.”
― Kirsty Moseley, quote from Nothing Left to Lose

“It was an unfamiliar sensation to me, but I knew what it was. It was love.”
― Kirsty Moseley, quote from Nothing Left to Lose

“Music was a college attendee's survival essential; he'd need that to keep himself sane.”
― Kirsty Moseley, quote from Nothing Left to Lose

“My sixteenth was anything but sweet; it was more like the passage into hell on earth.”
― Kirsty Moseley, quote from Nothing Left to Lose

“shocked expressions, but Ashton looked incredibly angry.”
― Kirsty Moseley, quote from Nothing Left to Lose

“lives. In some cultures, it’s even considered to be the start of passage into womanhood. My sixteenth was anything but sweet; it was more like the passage into hell on earth. March 12 was the day my dreams died and my life was sent into a downward spiral of pain, grief and terror. My sixteenth birthday”
― Kirsty Moseley, quote from Nothing Left to Lose

“Right now I was standing in the cold of the night, queuing for admittance outside club Ozone – unknowingly waiting for my traumatic ordeal to begin.”
― Kirsty Moseley, quote from Nothing Left to Lose

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“Asked about the role of America’s newspaper publishers, later, when they opposed him editorially, he answered, “Their job is to separate the wheat from the chaff and then print the chaff.”
― David Halberstam, quote from The Fifties

“Minnows and catfish can recognize each member of their own species by his particular, person-specific odor. It is hard to imagine a solitary, independent, existentialist minnow, recognizable for himself alone; minnows in a school behave like interchangeable, identical parts of an organism. But there it is.”
― Lewis Thomas, quote from The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher

“Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material self-interest: indeed this very pursuit now constitutes whatever remains of our sense of collective purpose. We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth. We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: Is it good Is it fair Is it just Is it right Will it help bring about a better society or a better world Those used to be the political questions even if they invited no easy answers. We must learn once again to pose them.

The materialistic and selfish quality of contemporary life is not inherent in the human condition. Much of what appears “natural” today dates from the 1980s: the obsession with wealth creation the cult of privatization and the private sector the growing disparities of rich and poor. And above all the rhetoric that accompanies these: uncritical admiration for unfettered markets disdain for the public sector the delusion of endless growth.

We cannot go on living like this. The little crash of 2008 was a reminder that unregulated capitalism is its own worst enemy: sooner or later it must fall prey to its own excesses and turn again to the state for rescue. But if we do no more than pick up the pieces and carry on as before we can look forward to greater upheavals in years to come.”
― Tony Judt, quote from Ill Fares the Land

“The ultimate good of the gospel is seeing and savoring the beauty and value of God. God’s wrath and our sin obstruct that vision and that pleasure. You can’t see and savor God as supremely satisfying while you are full of rebellion against Him and He is full of wrath against you. The removal of this wrath and this rebellion is what the gospel is for. The ultimate aim of the gospel is the display of God’s glory and the removal of every obstacle to our seeing it and savoring it as our highest treasure. “Behold Your God!” is the most gracious command and the best gift of the gospel. If we do not see Him and savor Him as our greatest fortune, we have not obeyed or believed the gospel.”
― John Piper, quote from God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself

“Is this a Kurdish thing?’
‘What?’
‘Being deliberately contradictory?”
― Ian McDonald, quote from The Dervish House

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