‘I’ll not be vain or conceited anymore. People will think much less of me but that can’t be helped.’ But the funny thing was that everyone thought much more of Clickety Clack when he became humble and modest. They liked him very much, and often had happy evenings with him in his little toadstool cottage.’
Clickety Clack from Round The Clock Stories – Enid Blyton
‘It looks like the most passive activity known to man; people who give ‘reading’ as their hobby qualify themselves as automatic wallflowers. Yet reading has rocked more worlds, turned more heads, changed more lives than sex, drugs and Nintendo put together.’
‘Don’t burn your bridges. Flame-throw your bridges. Absolutely completely destroy them. Because then, the only way forwards is to go for your dreams.’
‘With their capacity for aggresssion strait-jacketed within a too narrow morality, those who are only or merely compassionate and self sacrificing (and naive and exploitable) cannot call forth the genuinely righteous and appropiately self protective anger necessary to protect themselves.’
‘Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren’t using.’
I’ve got four books on the go at the moment. I’m currently reading at various times of the day;
I don’t usually have so many books on the go at the same time. It’s usually just one or two, but lately, I am blessed by finding great little bookshops in unexpected places and being able to buy some wonderful books. This month, I’m feeling blessed by books.
‘How extraordinary. I have known Prince Philip all these years. I did not know he had a guilty secret. He likes poetry. Poor man. How dreadful.’
-The Queen Mother discovering that Prince Philip likes poetry. From Backstairs Billy: The life Of William Tallon by Tom Quinn
‘Unhappiness is never forever.’
-A Sortofbiography – Eric Idle
‘There is some satisfaction to be got from setting things down on paper…’
‘All my life I’ve been doing things for other people, looking after them, doing things to please them but now I want to be my own person in my own right and I’m no longer afraid of doing what I want to do…’
Puli (Sathnam Sanghera’s sister) from The Boy With The TopKnot by Sathnam Sanghera
Things In My Head 