"There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences."

-- William Ralph Inge

#Punishment Quotes #Rewards Quotes #Consequence Quotes

“I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.”
“There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are.”
“To mourn, perhaps, is simply to prolong a posture of astonishment ...”

Source : Sara Suleri (2018). “Meatless Days”, p.159, Penguin UK
“A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?”
“I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.”
“Finnick:" Good to see you, Peeta." Peeta:" You be nice to her, Finnick. Or I might try and take her away from you." It could be a joke, if the tone wasn't so cold. Everything it conveys is wrong. The open distrust of Finnick, the implication that Peeta has his eye on Annie, that Annie could desert Finnick, that I do not even exist. Finnick:"Oh Peeta," says Finnick lightly. "Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.”
“By all odds, earliest man, so naked to the elements and to deadly enemies, should have existed in a state of constant shock. We find him instead the only lighthearted being in a deadly serious universe.... He alone, with childish carelessness, tinkered and played, and exerted himself more in the pursuit of superfluities than of necessities. Yet the tinkering and playing, and the fascination with the nonessential, were a chief source of the inventiveness which enabled man to prevail over better-equipped and more-purposeful animals.”
“I'd cry, if only I had the time to do it.”

Source : Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.371, Penguin

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