Magwitch Telling Quotes & Sayings

It's never too late to be wise.
See how your spirit has been
fermenting. — Yrsa Daley-Ward

For me life is an inn where I must stay until the carriage from the abyss calls to collect me [ ... ] I could consider this inn to be a prison, since I'm compelled to stay here; I could consider it a kind of club, because I meet other people here. However, unlike others, I am neither impatient nor sociable. I leave those who chatter in the living room, from where the cosy sound of music and voices reaches me. I sit at the door and fill my eyes and ears with the colours and sounds of the landscape and slowly, just for myself, I sing vague songs that I compose while I wait.
Night will fall on all of us and the carriage will arrive. I enjoy the breeze given to me and the soul given to me to enjoy it and I ask no more questions, look no further. If what I leave written in the visitors' book is one day read by others and entertains them on their journey, that's fine. If no one reads it or is entertained by it, that's fine too. — Fernando Pessoa

Literature is always best when it is celebrating its subjects darkly ... And because it is often by describing the thing lost - a family, a moment of happiness, a child, a father - that we understand the full weight of what we had. — Bill Buford

Your lifestyle should reflect your passion — Sunday Adelaja

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters. — Robert Harris

You are not mentally developed by what you read, but by what you think about what you read. — Wallace D. Wattles

But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them. — Neville Marriner

We know you weren't in the house', he said, starting up again, cranking himself with the handle. They always say 'We', 'We', never 'I' 'I' - as if they feel braver and righter knowing there's a lot of them against only one. — Alan Sillitoe

I am one who has been acquainted with the night — Robert Frost

We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess. — John Stott

If you try to target a movie at kids, you end up with something that makes parents take a nap. — Lee Unkrich

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. — Mark Twain

If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough room for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world. — David Levithan

Come with me outside," he says, and I feel his hand on mine. "We won't go far." I can't see him; but I hear a complicated mix of emotion in his voice and feel it in the way he touches me. Love, concern, and something unusual, something bittersweet. — Ally Condie