“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
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“Sweetheart. Are you trying to kill me?”
― Shelly Crane, quote from Significance
“Bradley Headstone, in his decent black coat and waistcoat, and decent white shirt, and decent formal black tie, and decent pantaloons of pepper and salt, with his decent silver watch in his pocket and its decent hair-guard round his neck, looked a thoroughly decent young man of six-and-twenty. He was never seen in any other dress, and yet there was a certain stiffness in his manner of wearing this, as if there were a want of adaptation between him and it, recalling some mechanics in their holiday clothes. He had acquired mechanically a great store of teacher's knowledge. He could do mental arithmetic mechanically, sing at sight mechanically, blow various wind instruments mechanically, even play the great church organ mechanically. From his early childhood up, his mind had been a place of mechanical stowage. The arrangement of his wholesale warehouse, so that it might be always ready to meet the demands of retail dealers history here, geography there, astronomy to the right, political economy to the left—natural history, the physical sciences, figures, music, the lower mathematics, and what not, all in their several places—this care had imparted to his countenance a look of care; while the habit of questioning and being questioned had given him a suspicious manner, or a manner that would be better described as one of lying in wait. There was a kind of settled trouble in the face. It was the face belonging to a naturally slow or inattentive intellect that had toiled hard to get what it had won, and that had to hold it now that it was gotten. He always seemed to be uneasy lest anything should be missing from his mental warehouse, and taking stock to assure himself.”
― Charles Dickens, quote from Our Mutual Friend
“Kitty shook her head. "You're wrong. Your apology isn't irrelevant and you're a fool if you can't see it. I'm grateful that you stopped Makepeace from having me killed. Now stop being such a wet blanket and try to think of something to do."
He looked at her. "Hold on—was there a thanks buried in that pile of invective?”
― Jonathan Stroud, quote from Ptolemy's Gate
“Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do."
The sign read:
"Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion."
"It seemed to me," said Wonko the Sane, "that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.”
― Douglas Adams, quote from So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
“Anna gave me a humoring smile. “Everyone eventually falls for the two of you together. You’re meant to be.”
― S.C. Stephens, quote from Reckless
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