"Was I being groomed for some special mission? What possible purpose could an existence like mine serve? When I wasnâ€™t drinking in crappy bars, I was home by myself reading: a life that was achingly lonely, and yet perversely designed to prevent anybody from ever getting close enough to really know me."

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Source : Heather King (2006). “Parched”, p.16, Penguin

Heather King

#Lonely Quotes #Reading Quotes #Drinking Quotes

“In order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be seen, really seen.”

Source : David Almond (2013). “Skellig”, p.99, Hachette UK
“I love that Toronto is demonstrating that a big, highly diverse, multicultural city can actually work and work well, if its residents have the attitude of Torontonians.”
“I have a wardrobe full of expensive clothes, but wear the same two T-shirts. I've never found a look.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2007.
“America ... holds up its way of life as the ideal for every nation, and seeks to impose its own standards of living - which many people think ridiculously and unwholesomely high - on others, partly of course in the search for markets. If it were openly stated that it was just a search for markets, that would be one thing, but it is not; by a tremendous propaganda campaign this materialistic conception is held up as an ideal, as somehow part of liberty, and above all, as a form of happiness.”
“With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much flexing of religious muscle in the public square, the poor in spirit have no one but Jesus to call them blessed anymore.”
“Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.”
“You only know that youâ€™re in love when you suffer.”
“The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 02, 2014

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