Kealan Shilling Quotes & Sayings

so that it may grow fatter and — Virginia Woolf

I wasn't going to let her sucker me into being her friend again just so she could turn around and crush me one more time. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Every living thing is just a random iteration on some other organism, and the best iterations win. — Peter Thiel

Dean Mohamet, a Muslim landowner from Patna who had followed his British patron to Ireland. There he soon eloped with, and later marries, Jean Daly, from a leading Anglo-Irish family ... In 1807 Dean Mohamet moved to London where he opened the country's first Indian owned curry restaurant, Dean Mohamet's Hindoostanee Coffee House : ... He finally decamped to Brighton where he opened what can only be described as Britain's first oriental massage parlour and became "Shampooing Surgeon to Kings George IV and William IV. " — William Dalrymple

When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it from memory as if I had thought of it myself. It was a clear sign that I wanted to be involved in writing, even if it was just pretend at that point. — Jonathan Dee