"It's hard to stay calm when you're terrified, helpless, alone, at the mercy of men with no mercy at all."

-- Joe Abercrombie

#Men Quotes #Stay Calm Quotes #Mercy Quotes

“I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.”
“The things two people do to each other they remember. If they stay together, it's not because they forget; it's because they forgive.”
“Every sex scene is always, without a doubt, terribly funny.”
“I do probably 80 or 90 per cent of the cooking at home.”
“But when it comes to F1 I am a huge Lewis [Hamilton] fan because he is a super promoter of the sport. From a pure business aspect - sorry Nico if I have to say this - you are not so good for my business.”
“I guess mercy is a muscle like any other. You got to exercise it, or it just cramp right up.”

Source : Esi Edugyan (2012). “Half-Blood Blues: A Novel”, p.230, Macmillan
“I think it's possible for all of us to use our yoga to distract us from our yoga. Because we get so caught up in the form that we forget the soul.”
“I want my street to be crazy, I want my avenues, shops and buildings, to enter into a crazy dance, and this is why I deform and distort their outlines and colours. However I always come up against the same difficulty, that if all the elements were one by one deformed and distorted excessively, if in the end nothing remained of their real outlines, I would have totally effaced the location that I intended to suggest, that I wished to transform.”

Source : "Prospectus et tous écrits suivants". Book by Jean Dubuffet, Vol. II, p. 483, 1967.

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