"[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience."

-- Mervyn Peake

#Dream Quotes #Book Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.”
“Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.”

Source : Vikram Seth (1993). “A Suitable Boy”, p.1165, Penguin Books India
“Isaiah was so attuned to God, because of the great crisis he had just endured, that the call of God penetrated his soul. The majority of us cannot hear anything but ourselves. And we cannot hear anything God says. But to be brought to the place where we can hear the call of God is to be profoundly changed.”
“The ability of dandelions to tell the time is somewhat exaggerated, owing to the fact that there is always one seed that refuses to be blown off; the time usually turns out to be 37 o'clock.”
“You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid”
“Language always pre-exists us: it is always already 'in place', waiting to assign us our places within it.”
“Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.”
“It made her think about how she couldn't believe how big the universe was, but how small it was for her.”

Source : Jodi Lynn Anderson (2009). “Peaches”, p.5, Harper Collins

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