"It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad..."

-- Alain de Botton

#Book Quotes #Sadness Quotes

“My favourite restaurant of all time is Mildreds on London's Lexington Street. It's a little vegetarian restaurant and is really fun and healthy, too. It was the first place I went to in London and really liked. That was 20 years ago, and it is still my favourite.”
“The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.”

Source : C. J. Sansom (2004). “Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery”, p.132, Penguin
“Ever since I got on Days I've been doing theater.”
“Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.”
“Times have changed. The athletes have changed.”
“They're going to come to me and they're going to say numbers for three years and I'm going to use my division and if it sounds good when I hear it, then I'll take it. But I'm not going to say I'll take less (than the max) . . . Put it this way. I won't take a BMW from somebody when I know I can get a Maybach from somewhere else.”
“Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight”

Source : Sheridan Hay (2008). “The Secret of Lost Things”, p.232, Anchor
“But everyone gets burnt, don't they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can learn as a director is to not put yourself into situations where it can get outside of your control. And that's what happened.”

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