"So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?"

-- Hilary Mantel

#Years Quotes #Preparation Quotes #Adults Quotes

“habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness ...”

Source : Margaret Deland (2015). “The Iron Woman”, p.64, The Floating Press
“What color is the sky in your world Cena. You're talking what Wrestlmania needs to be, but allow me to demenstrate what's going to happen. The Rock laying boots to asses, from the rooder to the pooder. Cenation is going to be Cyalaternation!”
“I could croak with no warning, and the only tragedy anyone would experience would be showing up on the last day of my estate sale simply to discover that all remaining items had copious amounts of dog hair on them.”

Source : Laurie Notaro (2011). “It Looked Different on the Model: Epic Tales of Impending Shame and Infamy”, p.64, Villard
“I felt great calmness and perfect peace. I had the feelings of a poor man who has just come under the protection of the Royal Family, and has obtained an annual pension for life-the dreadful fear of poverty and want having left his house for ever; I felt the safety and shelter which the little chickens feel under the wings of the hen. This is what it is to abide under the shadow of the Almighty, and to hide under His wings until all dangers are past.”
“My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.”
“When the good times come around, they gallup in like wild horses. You just try to stay on them for as long as you can. And when they throw you offyou just wait in the shade until they come around again.”
“I used to collect charms and bracelets.”
“A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.”

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