"I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way" ."

-- John Boyne

#Book Quotes #Self Quotes #Bears Quotes

“If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.”
“I always think there are people looking not so much for information as for reassurance and reaffirmation of their views.”
“If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.”
“Quests are a huge inconvenience. Don't let anyone tell you differently, even if that person has experience. The problem is that people forget the pain and aggravation as soon as the quest ends successfully, and then they remember only the glorious parts. In this way quests are a bit like childbirth, even to the point of saying that quests often give birth to glory. Maybe.”

Source : Amy Neftzger (2013). “The Orphanage of Miracles: The Kingdom Wars: Book One”, p.13, Field of Gold Publishing, Inc.
“From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British.”

Source : "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.
“If it's the truth you seek, then darling love you'll find.”
“But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.”
“On that night I was left with only the truth that nothing of our personality survives after death, that in the end all that was Misha Vainberg would evaporate along with the styles and delusions of his epoch, leaving behind not one flutter of his sad heavy brilliance, not one damp spot around which his successors could congregate to appreciate his life and times.”

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