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“Scotland is a great nation, but its horses are very uncomfortable.”
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“THE STORIES WE TELL fearlessly explores the textures of the human heart, finding a path toward hope through a Savannah that is jagged with class issues, faith misused, and broken trust. Henry loses you in a landscape peopled with secret keepers, storytellers and liars, and proves that in the end, love is the only reliable compass. This is everything you expect from Patti Callahan Henry—lyrical writing, characters worth rooting for, a sure-footed belief in the power of goodness—plus a twisty plot that will keep the pages turning long into the night.”
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“Each day is a day of decision, and our decisions determine our destiny.”
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“I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.”
Source : John Betjeman, Stephen Games (2006). “Trains and buttered toast: selected radio talks”, John Murray Pubs Ltd
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“As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.”
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“The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as hypnosis, psychotropic drugs, or "brainwashing," but rather the systematic manipulation of the most mundane aspects of human nature over time in confining settings.”
Source : Philip Zimbardo (2011). “The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil”, p.258, Random House
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“When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers with which to eat.' And we're supposed to get politically discouraged? Oh please. We're being opposed by people who denounced the fork.”
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“Sometimes you have to make bold choices, creatively. I'm always in favor of that.”
