“We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.”
― John Christopher, quote from The Prince in Waiting
“Even if it is nonsense, it is often useful to know what kind of nonsense men believe.”
― John Christopher, quote from The Prince in Waiting
“Before you have faith you must believe, and before you believe there must be evidence of some sort to persuade the mind. Faith is remembering that evidence and holding to it against all that seems to challenge or contradict it.”
― John Christopher, quote from The Prince in Waiting
“Everyone recognized she was without malice and therefore she provoked none.”
― John Christopher, quote from The Prince in Waiting
“There are disappointments in all men's lives, even those who have achieved their ambition, and there are compensations.”
― John Christopher, quote from The Prince in Waiting
“Then I went to the windows and pulled them open. The rain had stopped and the night was very still, black except for the glow behind the western hills that marked the Burning Lands. A dog barked far off, once and no more.”
― John Christopher, quote from The Prince in Waiting
John Christopher
Born place: in Huyton, Lancashire, The United Kingdom
Born date April 16, 1922
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“All Alek knew was that he missed Seth differently from everything else in the world he left behind.”
― Michael Barakiva, quote from One Man Guy
“And maybe love is terrifying. I'm terrified now, but not in the way she would think.
I'm terrified because I hate who she is and what she's done, I do, and yet there is still something strong and powerful between us, some kind of deep, primal bond that won't end, won't snap or break or change, it just remains there inside me, as sold and factual as my blood and bones - she is my mother, I am her daughter - and I don't know what to call it because it doesn't feel like love, not the good kind I felt for Ellie, with all my heart, but instead an instinctual pull that's been there from the beginning, drawing me back to her again and again, the woman who has hurt me like no one else ever could, and now she's dying and the bond is still here, inside me, and I won't call it love or hate because emotions has nothing to do with the fact that she is my mother and I am her daughter, and we will be connected in that way forever.”
― Laura Wiess, quote from Ordinary Beauty
“The silence became palpable and merciless in its depths. The only sound came from my car’s radio. The Temptations towed me to tears.”
― Billy O'Connor, quote from Confessions of a Bronx Bookie
“Trauma. It doesn't eke itself out over time. It doesn't split itself manageably into bite-sized chunks and distribute itself equally throughout your life.
Trauma is all or nothing. A tsunami wave of destruction.
A tornado of unimaginable awfulness that whooshes into your life - just for one key moment - and wreaks such havoc that, in just an instant, your whole world will never be the same again.”
― Holly Bourne, quote from The Manifesto on How to be Interesting
“You wouldn't find it funny if you had zipper tracks permanently pressed into your dick.”
― Julieanne Reeves, quote from Razing Kayne
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