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“People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.”
Source : Libba Bray (2012). “The Diviners: Number 1 in series”, p.321, Hachette UK
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“The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.”
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“But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss.”
Source : Angela Thirkell (1968). “The Brandons, and others”, Hamish Hamilton
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“Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.”
Source : James Geary (2011). “The World in a Phrase”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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“My father would never have come to visit, he detested Eva's [Braun] choice in a man and the fact [Adolf] Hitler had set her up in an apartment. To him it was deeply humiliating that she was living with a man at his own whim at an apartment he was paying for.”
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“I was the kid who always liked to take the ball down to the school even in my free time, kick it against the wall, juggle it in the front yard and so it was kind of a perpetual state of playing soccer for me.”
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“But I've married a deeply sensible person who is extremely good at talking me down from my various ledges, and who takes care of me in a billion ways.”
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“We live in an age where many things are working hard to conk us out and anesthetize us. Anything we can do to shake us out of that- with no other purpose than to wake us- is valuable.”
Source : Source: pitchfork.com
