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“People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, “If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it.†They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could.”
Source : Heather O'Neill (2016). “Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel”, p.13, HarperCollins
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“Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.”
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“I strongly support European sanctions against Mugabe and his ruling clique. We must do all in our power to help the people of Zimbabwe achieve their freedom and prosperity once again.”
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“I believed that by a process of what I can only describe as inward dilation of the eyes I could increase my actual vision.”
Source : "Outline- An Autobiography & Other Writings". Book by Paul Nash, London, 1949.
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“I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that.”
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“It's impossible, that's for sure. So let's start working.”
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“I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?”
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“Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?”
