Màili C. J.

“It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

“Why is it that we can better bear to part in spirit than in body, and while we have the fortitude to act farewell, have not the nerve to say it?”
― Charles Dickens

“Gin and whisky cost so much more. Oblivion and courage could no longer be purchased for the price of an old song.”
― Norah Hoult, There Were No Windows

“It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs — and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London