“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
― The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses
― The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Lady Windermere's Fan
― Lady Windermere's Fan
“I enjoyed the meetings, too. It was like having friends.”
― Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
― Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.”
― Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
― Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
― The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader”
― The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader”
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