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“I believe in a zone of privacy.”
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“Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast; It's that confounded cucumber I've ate and can't digest.”
Source : Richard Harris Barham (1847). “The Ingoldsby Legends Or Mirth and Marvels”, p.357
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“Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.”
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“I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.”
Source : Richard Peck (2005). “The River Between Us”, p.42, Penguin
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“You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved from the darts board to the bar, and from the bar to the door of the Gents ... "The beer was better," he said finally. "And cheaper! When I was a young man, mild beer - wallop we used to call it - was fourpence a pint. That was before the war, of course." "Which war was that?" said Winston. "It's all wars," said the old man vaguely. He took up his glass, and his shoulders straightened again. "'Ere's wishing you the very best of 'ealth!”
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“I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself.”
Source : Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.196, Granta Books
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“My mother's from Texas. Small town outside of Waco called Downsville. And my father's from Nigeria. And so I guess I'm properly African-American.”
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“My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities.”
Source : Jack Dreyfus (2001). “A Remarkable Medicine Has Been Overlooked”, p.12, Lantern Books
