"He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought was jostling within himself. He had grown up. What a boy had set out to seek a man had found, found by the act of living."

-- Mervyn Peake

#Home Quotes #Boys Quotes #Men Quotes

“I've been very fortunate - You only can do what you're offered, you know?”
“The more you fly, the more unsettling it is, because you realize how much more likely it will be for you to crash. I am getting better at it, though.”
“It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who show our country disrespect and betray its people.”
“I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.”
“I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.”
“Some intelligence officers filed reports saying that this is a dangerous group, but at one level it was not forwarded, it was just ignored,”
“Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.”

Source : Colleen Hoover (2012). “Slammed”, p.223, Simon and Schuster
“Women understand that men must often be kept from soiling themselves with the dirty little details of life in order to accomplish the big shinny jobs unimpeded.”

Source : "Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage" by Judy LaMarsh, Ch. 3, (p. 36), 1969.

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