English Literature A2 Wider Reading Quotes

#1. Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.

Sarah Vowell

#2. Live because you're dying. Tomorrow is no more guaranteed than the next hour. No minute is minuscule; every second is a new breath that fills the lungs with life.

Bron Dayvid

#3. A single whisper can be quite a disturbance when the rest of the audience is silent.

Anthony Marra

#4. A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can't do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion.

Howard Fast

#5. You'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. The reasons you like them makes the things you don't understand unimportant. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them.

Terry Goodkind

#6. True love is more than physical, emotional and romantical. It's an acceptance of all that has been, that is, will be and will not be.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#7. If I can't, then that would make it an absolute and you said there aren't any absolutes." "That's different." "How is it different?" "It's the government." "You mean, there aren't any absolutes except the government?" "I mean, if they say it's important, then it is.

Ayn Rand

#8. Simply put, the direct power over the money supply is the indirect power over the people.

Orrin Woodward