mollysue90’s most recent Quotables

I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed — or worse, expelled.

Of course, he might have crawled into the airing cupboard and died... but I mustn't get my hopes up.

Don't buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They're bastards, and they do it on purpose.

Silence does not help, guys. Note to self: teach this lot how to answer a question directly. All of mine were either going unanswered, or I ended up being given sheer crypticness.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

My mother was a great believer in child labour.

No, I don't think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.

I am not going to stand here and tell you failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea then how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in the pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

Now she had a little library growing in one corner of her room. One day she wanted books to be stacked all the way up to the ceiling along every wall. This, to her, seemed like a heavenly, comforting notion.

“Courage is only the accumulation of small steps.”

The truth is, that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

The struggle of maturity is to recover the seriousness of a child at play.

If you're at the cutting edge, then you're going to bleed.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.