Jonathan Chambers

“With a whole class marked as enemies of the people, and the chance of an instant profit, friend had turned on friend without hesitation or qualm.”
― Jeremy Dronfield, The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz

“The thing with mental turmoil is that so many things that make you feel better in the short term make you feel worse in the long term. You distract yourself, when what you really need is to know yourself.”
― Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

“Tolstoy wrote, back in 1894, in The Kingdom of God Is Within You: The more men are freed from privation; the more telegraphs, telephones, books, papers, and journals there are; the more means there will be of diffusing inconsistent lies and hypocrisies, and the more disunited and consequently miserable will men become, which indeed is what we see actually taking place.”
― Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

“And a shift in perspective can change a life. Hope can create possibility. Options are always available to us if we stand back and look at things differently.”
― Bryan Cranston, A Life in Parts