We’re all bought, and what’s more we’re bought with our own money.
“When you’re looking after someone who’s that unwell you start to become unwell yourself. You lose yourself. But you don’t give up. I didn’t care what it was doing to me. You don’t give up. And I never did give up.”
― My Amy: The Life We Shared
― My Amy: The Life We Shared
“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.”
― Another Cup of Tea: Diary of a Dementia Carer
― Another Cup of Tea: Diary of a Dementia Carer
“I shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”
― How To Win Friends and Influence People
― How To Win Friends and Influence People
“We know that poverty is unpleasant; in fact, since it is so remote, we rather enjoy harrowing ourselves with the thought of its unpleasantness. But don’t expect us to do anything about it. We are sorry for you lower classes, just as we are sorry for a cat with the mange, but we will fight like devils against any improvement of your condition. We feel that you are much safer as you are. The present state of affairs suits us, and we are not going to take the risk of setting you free, even by an extra hour a day. So, dear brothers, since evidently you must sweat to pay for our trips to Italy, sweat and be damned to you.”
― Down and Out in Paris and London
― Down and Out in Paris and London
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