Hate’s a terrible thing. It’s a wasteful, stupid emotion. You can hate someone with all your heart, but it’ll never do them a bit of harm. The only person it hurts is you. You can spend your days hating, letting it eat away at you, and the person you hate will go on living just the same. So what’s the point? – Stuart Neville, The Ghosts of Belfast
By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society (Ha-Joon Chang)
God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities (Mark Batterson, In A Pit With A Lion On A Snowy Day: How To Survive And Thrive When Opportunity Roars)
Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government (King George V)
Yes, I prosecute bastards like him, make them pay for what they did to innocent victims who can’t fight for themselves. And every time I win a case, I not only win for the victim, but also for me (Buffy Andrews, Gina and Mike)
But she hadn’t been able to take root. She’d remembered the wrong things, and forgotten too much. She’d remembered how to kill and how to hate, and she’d forgotten how to grow (Naomi Novik, Uprooted)
Whoever has experienced near-death, knows how gracious, it is to be alive (Lailah Gifty Akita)
Say it. But…””But what?” he asked.She whispered it, sounding too vulnerable. “But only if its the truth, Caine. Only. If.””I love you,” he said (Michael Grant, Light)
Personal responsibility leads to national transformation (Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance)
Picture the person who intimidates you most. Now picture them crouched like a dog, pooping on the sidewalk, looking up at you, all vulnerable. We all poop. Maybe not on the sidewalk, but nobody is better than you and don’t let them think they are for a minute. (Caprice Crane, Confessions of a Hater)