Chocs Children Quotes

#1. Pain makes humans selfish. Blocked off. Focused inward instead of outward.

Tarryn Fisher

#2. You said, "Ellie, this is the truth, everybody leaves. Everybody." I was just seven, and when I reached for you, you were death and absence and missing take you. You were where bad husbands disappear to. And you were whispering. "Just ask them.

Carmen Rodrigues

#3. The bird and the elephant drink from the same river.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. I'm from southern Arelon, Princess," Ahan said, reaching for some more clams. "To us, round is beautiful. Not everyone wants their women to look like starving schoolboys.

Brandon Sanderson

#5. For inside him there are spirits, or at least little genii, which have seen to it that for a collector - and I mean a real collector, a collector as he ought to be - ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.

Walter Benjamin

#6. I am here," Eric said.
"And I am here." I was a little amused at Eric's phone answering technique.
"Sookie, my little bullet-sucker," he said, sounding fond and warm.
"Eric, my big bullshitter.

Charlaine Harris

#7. The goods of this world are most dear to me, but much dearer are peace of mind and my own honor.

Claudio Monteverdi

#8. I don't want to bash Bill and Hillary, because they're friends of mine, but I do have a difference of opinion about how to take back the House and the Senate.

Dennis Kucinich

#9. I'm a huge fan of John Malkovich and Josh Brolin, and Michael Shannon has got to be one of my favorite actors.

John Gallagher Jr.

#10. That is the really great thing about being an adult male, once you get married and have children the whole decision-making process is taken out of your hands, and I for one am extremely grateful.

P. J. O'Rourke

#11. In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only proceed from the publick. The publick, then, is to be watched, in this country, as, in other countries kings and aristocrats are to be watched.

James F. Cooper

#12. Affective life thus shows us that we are not only individuals, that our being is not reducible to our individuated being.

Muriel Combes

#13. Half as big but twice as mad.

George R R Martin

#14. You don't have the right to make that call, not after all this time. I can barely breathe when you're near me, but I'll surely suffocate if I have to lose you. How can you ask me to do that?" She turned her face away. "I'm stronger than you think." She looked back at him. "And I'll do my own fixing.

Madison Thorne Grey

#15. The Pakistan Cricket Board is a long-standing joke, its chairmen replaced with every change of government.

Tariq Ali