"Choose an author as you choose a friend."

-- Christopher Wren

#Reading Quotes #You Choose Quotes

“Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.”

Source : James Hogg (2016). “The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Gothic Classic): Psychological Thriller”, p.153, e-artnow
“Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.”
“[ My mother] went, OK, I've read the Bible. I've read the Bible again. I'm reading the Bible again. OK, let me - where does this Bible come from? What does this Old Testament speak - who are the Israelites? Who - what is Judaism? And then she went, and I'm going to study that. And, you know, she wanted to almost get to the core.”
“Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people: those who knew what they wanted to do; those (the unhappiest) who never knew what their purpose in life was; and those who found out later on. I was in the last category, I reckoned, which didn't stop me wishing I'd been born into the first.”

Source : Hanif Kureishi (2009). “The Buddha of Suburbia”, p.90, Faber & Faber
“I drink because Iâ€™m thirsty,”
“I loved her more than she loved me, that was the problem. A basic imbalance. Relationships like that never last, however hard you try. And now she's pregnant and in love with a man who'll never love her the way she loves him. It's a series of vicious circles, and the only way to stop it is to find someone who loves you the same. No power struggle. No insecurities. Just friendship. Because you can never be friends with someone if you love them too much.”
“One arranges flowers as the spirit moves you; to obey some inner prompting to put this colour with that, to have brilliance here, line there, a sense of opulence in this place or sparseness in that; to suit your surroundings, your mood, the weather, the occasion. In a word, to do as you please, just as, if you could, you might paint a picture.”

Source : Constance Spry (1940). “Constance Spry's Garden Notebook”
“Be involved; be informed. Try to be understanding and tolerant and to appreciate diversity.”

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