“The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.”
― When It Happens to You
― When It Happens to You
“Hope to the very end, he told himself, even when you've slipped into the fires of Hell and the flames are searing your guts.”
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“You should think about nobody and go your own way, not on a course marked out for you by people holding mugs of water and bottles of iodine in case you fall and cut yourself so that they can pick you up - even if you want to stay where you are - and get you moving again.”
― The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
― The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
“I'm a human being and I've got thoughts and secrets and bloody life inside me that he doesn't know is there, and he'll never know what's there because he's stupid. I suppose you'll laugh at this, me saying the governor's a stupid bastard when I know hardly how to write and he can read and write and add-up like a professor. But what I say is true right enough. He's stupid, and I'm not, because I can see further into the likes of him than he can see into the likes of me.”
― The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
― The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
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