Dhea Juhara

“Because feeling like a fuck-up isn’t about being a failure, it’s about being made to feel like one. It’s the pressure and the panic to tick all the boxes and reach all the goals . . . and what happens when you don’t. When you find yourself on the outside. Because on some level, in some aspect of your life, it’s so easy to feel like you’re failing when everyone around you appears to be succeeding.”
― Alexandra Potter, Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up

“You’re not too old, it’s not too late, and yes you can.”
― Alexandra Potter, Confessions of a Forty Something

“Wars were connected by arms manufacturers, the same arms manufacturers who made the guns used in robberies, who made the guns used by crazy people in America when they when on the rampage in a shopping centre or hamburger restaurant. So already you had connection between hamburgers and dictators. Start from there and the thing just grew and grew.”
― Ian Rankin, The Beat Goes On

“That was the problem with having money: you ended up with decisions to make. And if you bought anything, where would you put it? He'd need either ditch something, or to start on another carrier bag.

That was the problem, being Frank.”
― Ian Rankin, The Beat Goes On