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“Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance.”
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“Hope, true hope, has proved as important as any medication I might prescribe or any procedure I might perform.”
Source : Jerome Groopman (2003). “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness”, p.7, Random House
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“Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance.”
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“I have learned that you're not perfect, and that sometimes the one you love can burn you. But it's just the fool that's looking backwards: a bitter heart turns the love we made to ashes.”
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“Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.”
Source : Moderata (Modesta Pozzo) Fonte (2007). “The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men”, p.76, University of Chicago Press
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“He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.”
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“Our debt was too great and the words thank you too small.”
Source : Ransom Riggs (2014). “Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children”, p.34, Quirk Books
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“When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.”
