“Each day you wake up alive, you are the victor; go claim your spoils”
― Quicksand
― Quicksand
“He eyed her critically. "You look like all your birthdays came at once."
"I look happy to you?"
"No, old. Am I the only one round here speaks English?”
― London Rules
"I look happy to you?"
"No, old. Am I the only one round here speaks English?”
― London Rules
“Race don’t come into it. They keep us fighting among ourselves like dogs for table scraps so we won’t catch them making off with the feast.”
― Small Mercies
― Small Mercies
“Antibiotics’ll clear it up.’ ‘They tend not to work with drink taken.’ ‘They’re drugs, they’re not fucking Irishmen.”
― Joe Country
― Joe Country
“The most common one-liner in the Bible is, "Do not be afraid." Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.”
― Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
― Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
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