"Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are."

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Source : Mark Haddon (2012). “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Vintage Children's Classics”, p.94, Random House

Mark Haddon

#Sad Quotes #People Quotes #Secret Quotes

“It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet;Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit.The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever,But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather.”

Source : 'Bagpipe Music' (1938)
“The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.”
“For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation.”
“Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.”
“Just call me Mr. Cain. And in 2013, they can call me Mr. President.”
“What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.”

Source : Reynolds Price (1994). “A Whole New Life”, p.76, Simon and Schuster
“Democracy has at least one merit, namely that a Member of Parliament cannot be stupider than his constituents, for the more stupid he is, the more stupid they were to elect him.”
“While we sometimes feel and have felt in days that are past and gone, to complain because we meet with oppression, persecution, and affliction, yet I wish to say to my brethren and sisters that these things are the heritage of the Saints of God. â€¦ I have never read of the people of God in any dispensation passing through life, as the sectarian world would say, on flowery beds of ease, without opposition of any kind.”

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