"When things go right, I read. When things go wrong, I read more."

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Sara Nelson

#When Things Go Wrong Quotes

“Sun of my soul! Thou Saviour dear, It is not night if Thou be near.”

Source : John Keble (1842). “The Christian year [by J. Keble, ed. by G.W. Doane]. 1st Amer. ed. 3rd Amer. ed”, p.20
“I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.”
“Norman Mailer loved women so much. I mean probably more than anything in the world he loved women. He got put into a position where he was kind of seen as the anti-feminist, although he was for the feminist movement. He just didn't want people to get consumed with the idea that this was going to be much better. He said, "Look, women should be treated equally and fairly."”
“A child can identify with adult characters- but only if they are sympathetically drawn and simple enough.”
“When the door to love opens, The window to control closes.”
“...wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.”
“The stars are always up in the sky...then when it is perfectly black, they feel less vulnerable and out they come.”
“When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.”

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