Andrew Raymond > Quotes

“A parent’s job is to reassure. Arm your child with the tools and knowledge to make it in the world. Not to rob them of hope.”
― Andrew Raymond

“Did you know the average person spends two and a half hours a day on social media? Two and a half hours! Imagine if you spent that amount of time every day reading books or practising chess. After a year, you’d be so good at chess, wouldn’t you? But instead, folk are sitting hunched over their phones, scrolling through videos of folk doing wee dances in their bedrooms or endless nonsense about the right or the left trying to destroy you.”
― Andrew Raymond, The Long Dark