“To anyone who ever gave you confidence - you owe them a lot.”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons
“It was better to remain on my island than drown in somebody else’s sea. 7”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons
“There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.’ —Franz Kafka”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons
“It was better to remain on my island than drown in somebody else’s sea.”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons
“Holly was right. To anyone who ever gave you confidence – you owe them a lot.”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons
“He was her only love, but his paranoia and insecurities wouldn’t allow him to believe that. My mother was not strong enough to leave him. She tried her best to please him and win his trust, but when you accuse someone so often, eventually they will give in and prove you right.”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons
“I questioned what was missing in my father’s make-up that rendered him unable to keep hold of Doreen.”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons
“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.’ —Paulo Coelho”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons
“Just because no one creed, religion or class stood prouder than any other didn’t mean a whole nation was lacking in essence.”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons
“Stones had been cast and glasshouses lay in shards all around us. Inside I was dead; it was time for my exterior to follow suit.”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons
“I was trapped in a horrible nightmare that happened to other people, not to me. Not to my family and not to my husband.”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons
“But that’s what love is, Simon. It’s never giving up on the person you’ve given your heart to. It’s having faith that no matter how tough things get, that person will always be looking for you.”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons
“You can either learn from your parents’ mistakes, or repeat them and use them as an excuse for your own behaviour.”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons
“There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.’ —Franz Kafka ‘Life”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons
“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons
“There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons
“Because the more you trust in someone, the more opportunities you give them to shatter your illusions about them. But”
― John Marrs, quote from The Wronged Sons
John Marrs
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“How’d you get in there?” “She thinks I’m the shit,” Jake told him, grinning back. Coert kept handing him crap. “So you’ve brainwashed her.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from The Will
“You’re a pig,” I whispered back. “You know that, right?”
“So far bein’ a pig works for me, babe,” he said. “Gotta go now. Check out the college. Hit the clinic and get some pills. Don’t call your brother. Cook something fuckin’ great for dinner and don’t wear any panties. That’s all I ask.”
― Joanna Wylde, quote from Reaper's Property
“I only wanted to know, Prue. I be getting ancient and old, and the time draws nigh when life'll be a burden. I'd lief know as there was good in store for the best girl ever.”
― Mary Webb, quote from Precious Bane
“Perhaps the deepest reason why we are afraid of death is because we do not know who we are. We believe in a personal, unique, and separate identity — but if we dare to examine it, we find that this identity depends entirely on an endless collection of things to prop it up: our name, our "biography," our partners, family, home, job, friends, credit cards… It is on their fragile and transient support that we rely for our security. So when they are all taken away, will we have any idea of who we really are?
Without our familiar props, we are faced with just ourselves, a person we do not know, an unnerving stranger with whom we have been living all the time but we never really wanted to meet. Isn't that why we have tried to fill every moment of time with noise and activity, however boring or trivial, to ensure that we are never left in silence with this stranger on our own?”
― Sogyal Rinpoche, quote from The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
“Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day."
"Not in the history books," said Valentine.
"Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they?" said Father.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Ender in Exile
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