"Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the eyes with its insights."

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Julie Burchill

#Book Quotes #Eye Quotes #Bops Quotes

“I don't really give much thought to the roles that I'd ideally love to play.”
“Thou, Everlasting Strength, hast set Thyself forth to bear our burdens. May we bear Thy cross, and bearing that; find there is nothing else to bear; and touching that cross, find that instead of taking away our strength, it adds thereto. Give us faith for darkness, for trouble, for sorrow, for bereavement, for disappointment; give us a faith that will abide though the earth itself should pass away--a faith for living, a faith for dying.”
“Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell there shall meet as many men that never thought what was sin, as that spent all their thoughts in the compassing of sin.”
“I went back to my mother's house recently and I saw some of my earlier works as a 15-year-old art student. And a lot of them were reiterations of classic works.”
“Position yourself in the center of God's love. Believe in His love and walk in the power of His might.”
“Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused, about children being abused. We're going on a downward spiral.”
“Oh I believe in loving cats and dogs and children and parents â€“ sometimes â€“ but I donâ€™t believe in romantic love. Of course, thereâ€™s the momentary rush of hormones and chemicals that encourages us to mate, but itâ€™s biology â€“ itâ€™s no more inherently mystical than the nicotine in that cigarette youâ€™re smoking”
“I feel like you can't just have fashion for fashion's sake.”

Source : Source: wwd.com

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