“That’s the beauty aboot being polis: it doesnae really matter whether or not everybody hates you, as long as they’re civil tae your face and can put up a good front. You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.”
― Filth
― Filth
“Discrediting WE Charity may have been the short-term goal of some politicians and journalists, but the long-term consequences will be a devasting loss for our children and those in the developing world. That is a tragedy.”
― What WE Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada’s Largest Children’s Charity
― What WE Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada’s Largest Children’s Charity
“We often confuse what we wish for with what is.”
― MirrorMask
― MirrorMask
“would flower; and where birds came—and pecked”
― The Borrowers
― The Borrowers
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