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“Like the birds I will fly.”
Source : Victoria Forester (2008). “The Girl Who Could Fly”, p.171, Macmillan
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“I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.”
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“We all know that a lie needs no other grounds, than the invention of the liar; and to take for granted as truth, all that is alleged against the fame of others, is a species of credulity, that men would blush at on any other subject.”
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“Life's more amusing than we thought.”
Source : Andrew Lang (2014). “Rhymes à la Mode”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
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“Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.”
Source : 1759 To his troops,12 Sep, after reciting Thomas Gray's 'Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard' the evening before storming the ramparts of Quebec and dying a hero's death on the Plains of Abraham the following day. Quoted in Francis Parkman Montcalm and Wolfe (1884).
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“Being a father is the hardest job on the planet, because we don't have parental instincts like women have. You have to learn how to be a father before you even become a father, from a very young age. It's necessary to override what we're told in society a father should be, like if your son falls and scrapes his knee, you got to be tough. Baseball and all that are cool, but it's the tenderness and interactions that are really important. Boys are different; we have to impart that sensibility and that tenderness to them.”
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“I find life itself provides ample and sufficient tests of my valor and mettle: illness; betrayal; fruitless searches for love; working for the abusive, the insane, and the despotic. All challenges easily as thrilling to me as scrambling over icy rock in a pair of barely adequate boots.”
Source : David Rakoff (2002). “Fraud: Essays”, p.20, Anchor
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“The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.”
Source : George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.63, The Floating Press
