Sebastian Faulks Engleby Quotes & Sayings

Trump appeals to right-wingnuts because when the going gets tough, they wig out. — Michael R. Burch

The sergeant frowned. "Really, sir? And who might they be? Is there a gang of militant atheists at work in the district, that I know nothing about? Or a guerrilla unit of disaffected campanologists, perhaps? — Paul Bassett Davies

Satellite images, maps and blueprints of the whole world, of every city. We could look it up and know what's there in someone else's words. Or we could get wicked drunk and just go. — Joey Comeau

Every choice we make contains the energy of either faith or fear, and the outcome of every decision reflects to some extent that faith or fear. This dynamic of choice guarantees that we cannot run away from ourselves or our decisions. — Caroline Myss

The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme
thinking too much. — Virginia Woolf

I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. I think this is very true of English writers, but perhaps not so true of French writers, who seem to read each other passionately, extensively, and endlessly, and who then talk about it to each other - which is splendid. — William Golding

Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only. — Plautus

That's what people want to watch - somebody telling a story. So if you go in and tell a story that makes sense to them, that touches them, then they're going to watch; then they'll tell a friend and that type of thing. In terms of how many people are watching in a given week, it's more the advertiser's job, not mine. — Shaun Sipos

Happiness is the highest form of self-respect. A person who allows himself to be happy shows his self-respect. — Maery Rubin

On the day of his mother's funeral, to the boy I loved more than I had ever loved
anything or anyone, I said, Go to hell. — Jenny Han

Joliffe, watching him over the rim of his own bowl, felt for his discontent. In his own life there were other things he could have been besides a player
several other things he had been besides a player
but at least he had had choices and made them. He doubted this fellow had ever seen anything else to be but what he was. Or else he had refused other choices if they ever came. but staying with what you were born to was a choice, too, and the one that most people made
a choice that Joliffe could have made, too, upon a time, but had not and of that he was still glad. — Margaret Frazer

Characters begin as your children and become your teachers. — Chloe Thurlow

Mindfulness describes a "state of becoming" that places the individual beyond judgment and definition. — Celeste Cooper

I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves. — Romola Garai