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“Sometimes now I think just making it through a day is the point. Practically a triumph, don't you think? If you don't melt down or kill anyone or just give up? If you happen to be kind, or help someone else, or create something beautiful, well, you've really done something to crow about.”
― Peter Heller, Celine

“One of the things that happens to people as they get older, and especially to women on the other side of middle age, is that people forget to notice.”
― Peter Heller, Celine

“Now they are both looking at me and smiling. Carly’s smile is so bold, so certain. Jenni’s is tentative, flashing wide for a second and then disappearing. ‘Everything all right?’ I ask. ‘Carly was just telling me about your holiday,’ Jenni says. There is a pause. ‘And the party.’ ‘Party?’ ‘For bonfire night.”
― Amanda Robson, Obsession

“Democracy is good for you when you are not in power and worst when you are in power and that’s why it is best form of government.”
― Zaman Ali, ZAMANISM Wealth of the People