"I was literally singing to myself on my way home, after the killing. The tension, the desire to kill a woman had built up in such explosive proportions that when I finally pulled the trigger, all the pressures, all the tensions, all the hatred, had just vanished, dissipated, but only for a short time."

“People take things too literal in the Bible and it's totally wrong.”

“Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let's not go to Church, let's be the Church.”

“when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.”

“I do feel as if I'm living a blessed life at the moment. I've been thinking about the phrase 'living a dream,' because that's exactly what is happening. I'm just trying to go with the flow and take each day as it comes, otherwise I might freak out at all the things that have happened recently.”

“The difference between neurosis and wisdom is struggle.”

“Oh dear," said Sarah anxiously, "I do wish he wouldn't do these silly things." I'm sure we all wish that, Sarah," said Marcia sternly. "But unfortunately he has progressed rather further than the silly stage. Evil-minded-scheming stage is more what I would call it.”

Source : Angie Sage (2012). “Flyte: Septimus Heap Book 2 (Rejacketed)”, p.347, A&C Black

“It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.”

“Work isn't meaningful just because you spend your life doing it.”

Source : Anthony Marra (2013). “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena”, p.54, Random House