"There was a reason these boys were still alive, though. Something made them stronger than the other kids, the ones who had died in the early days, who had simply lain down and given up, unable to cope with the terrible things that were happening in the world. These boys were survivors. The will to live was stronger than any other feelings."

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Source : Charlie Higson (2009). “The Enemy”, p.26, Penguin UK

Charlie Higson

#Kids Quotes #Boys Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Blushes cannot be counterfeited.”
“Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth. You're an idiot babe, it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.”
“A young lady had only one complaint about her good husband: "My husband always praises me to other people," she said, "Often I hear from friends the wonderful things he has said about me. But I miss something, because he never gets around to saying these some things to me, to my face."”
“I'm being hypocritical because I have a Twitter, but I try to not talk about things like, 'Oh, I had a grapefruit this morning and it was delicious,' because, who cares?”

Source : "Thomas Mann and Zoey Deutch Talk BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, Auditioning without Seeing the Script, Working with Emma Thopmson, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 12, 2013.
“All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.”
“The true bodhisattva spirit grows out of this personal sense of freedom. You discover that you don't feel so needy anymore. You don't crave another refueling - with shamatha or with other people's love and attention - because you know within yourself how to be free, how to be confident. With this sense of security and freedom, you begin to direct your attention to the needs of others. The compassion expands.”
“The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry.”

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