Quotes
Authors
Chris Adrian

"It takes four angels to oversee an apocalypse: a recorder to make the book that would be scripture in the new world; a preserver to comfort and save those selected to be the first generation; an accuser to remind them why they suffer; and a destroyer to revoke the promise of survival and redemption, and to teach them the awful truth about furious sheltering grace."

Source : Chris Adrian (2012). “The Children's Hospital”, p.32, Granta Books

Chris Adrian

#Book Quotes #Angel Quotes #Grace Quotes

“We do not know what is being done in our name. Worse, we do not ask.”
“I came to Party Crashing because accidents happen. People you love will die. Nothing you treasure will last forever. And I need to accept and embrace that fact.”
“Live Free or Die Hard may work better for an audience that doesn't know much about the series is than it will for Die Hard die hards, who will be wondering who that impersonator is and what he did with the real John McClane. The original Die Hard came out of nowhere to blitz the 1988 summer box office. The fourth installment arrives with a weight of expectations that Atlas would have trouble shouldering and, when the dust settles in September, it's unlikely that Live Free or Die Hard will be one of this year's big success stories.”

Source : "Live Free or Die Hard (United States, 2007)". Movie Review, www.reelviews.net.
“A cinephile is someone who expects too much of cinema.”
“It seems acceptable today to scream for revolution, without any concept of what will follow it. This is just what the forces at large want, for who will follow a man who doesn't know where he's going?”

Source : "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Two: "Electronics, Sabotage, and Surveillance", p. 62, 1971.
“Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.”
“The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.”
“Sometimes the answer to our prayers is to become the answer to someone else's prayers.”

You may also like: