"The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin."

-- Jeanette Winterson

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“The mob that hounded Christ from Jerusalem to "the place of a skull" has never been dispersed, but is augmenting yet, as many of the learned men of the world and great men of the world come out from their studies and their laboratories and their palaces, and cry, "Away with this man! Away with him!" The most bitter hostility which many of the learned men of this day exercise in any direction they exercise against Jesus Christ the Son of God, the Saviour of the world.”
“It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain. So I need to run, and as my lungs burn and my back rebels with that stabbing knife feeling and my legs muscles harden and the half inch of loose skin around my waist jiggles, I feel as though my penance for the day is being done and that maybe God will be pleased enough to lend me some help, which I think is why He has been showing me interesting clouds for the past week.”
“I wasn't entirely sure, but a polite John Pritkin might be a sign of the apocalypse.”

Source : Karen Chance (2008). “Embrace the Night”, p.31, Penguin
“However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.”
“I remember everything about itâ€”with an effort. I see it all, as divers see what is going on above them, through a medium, dense, rippling, but transparent.”

Source : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (2008). “Carmilla: A Tragic Love Story”, p.38, Dusty White
“I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The only good reason for swimming, so far as I can see, is to escape drowning.”

Source : Helen Cresswell (2017). “The Bagthorpe Saga: Ordinary Jack (Collins Modern Classics)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK
“Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.”

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