“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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“Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.”
― Napoleon Hill, quote from Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
“No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.”
― Lynne Truss, quote from Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
“Life sucks, and then you die...”
― Stephenie Meyer, quote from Breaking Dawn
“I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be whirled away with the dusk on the farm-roads, or the smoke on the plain. I begun in the evenings to write stories, fairy-tales, and romances, that would take my mind a long way off, to other countries and times.”
― Isak Dinesen, quote from Out of Africa
“As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of the world. That disaster is a car crash or a war. To make us sit still. It can be getting cancer or getting pregnant. The important part is how it seems to catch us by surprise. That disaster stops us from living the life we'd planned as children - a life of constant dashing around.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Haunted
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