"Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee."

-- Jerry Pinto

#Home Quotes #Grace Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a book, might even take it into her boudoir, and there, reclining on here silken sheets, imbibing the thrills and chills manufactured by writerly quills, one of her hands, one not absolutely needed to grip the little volume, might wander. The fear, in short, as one-handed reading. [p. 146]”
“Got nothing to do with trying. You like someone, or you don't. If you're 'trying', you don't.”

Source : Lionel Shriver (2013). “Big Brother”, p.11, HarperCollins UK
“The scoreline is a bit flattering really.”

Source : "Steven Gerrard on the spot as Liverpool progress against Oldham" by Andy Hunter, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.
“A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization the state of affairs, arising out of a struggle against poverty, has overshot its ultimate goal-the liberation of man from material cares-and has become an obsessive image hanging over the present. Offered the choice of love or a garbage disposal, young people of all countries have chosen the garbage disposal.”
“I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.”
“I also wanted people to know that football actually started in China almost 3000 years ago.”
“That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and fingertips, he was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I'd always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph's part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.”
“In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.”

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