"I love the slow, warming sensation of my body going numb when I drink."

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Source : Patricia Gaffney (2009). “The Saving Graces: A Novel”, p.140, Harper Collins

Patricia Gaffney

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“Itâ€™s admirable, what you do, what she does, but to me animal-welfare people are a bit like Christians of a certain kind. Everyone is so cheerful and well-intentioned that after a while you itch to go off and do some raping and pillaging. Or to kick a cat.”
“Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe. Things could be a lot worse so why not be grateful they aren't and thereby happy rather than sad?”
“Learning to trust yourself and what you know takes time and work. You cannot expect to eradicate a lifetime of misguided information overnight. You must make a continuous, conscious effort to get on good terms with you.”
“For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.”
“I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at a time about the same period of time.”
“Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make bad people good; it makes dead people alive...the gospel is God's acceptance of us based on what Christ has done, not on what we can do.”
“The more we know about how we lost our spontaneous wonder and creativity, the more we can find ways to get them back.”

Source : John Bradshaw (2013). “Homecoming: Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child”, p.5, Bantam
“People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.”

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