Amber > Amber's Quotes

“Allan praised Herbert for a job well done and for acting the part well. Herbert blushed, while dismissing the praise, saying that it wasn't hard to play stupid when you are stupid. Allan said that he didn't know how hard it was, because the idiots Allan had met so far in his life had all tried to do the opposite.”
― Jonasson, Jonas

“Joy has to do with seeing how big, how completely unobstructed, and how precious things are. Resenting what happens to you and complaining about your life are like refusing to smell the wild roses when you go for a morning walk, or like being so blind that you don’t see a huge black raven when it lands in the tree that you’re sitting under. We can get so caught up in our own personal pain or worries that we don’t notice that the wind has come up or that somebody has put flowers on the diningroom table or that when we walked out in the morning, the flags weren’t up, and that when we came back, they were flying.”
― Pema Chödrön, Awakening Loving-Kindness

“If you support Tottenham you always give more love than you get back... Tottenham is the worst kind of bad team, because they're almost good. They always promise that they're going to be fantastic. They make you hope. So you go on loving them and they carry on finding more and more innovative ways of disappointing you”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“If you have a dad who supports Liverpool you always fucking think you can turn anything around. You know! Ever since that Champions League final.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“What does it mean when someone supports Manchester United or whatever it's called?"
...
"They always win. So they've started believing they deserve to.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“I'm so proud of you," she said, and she supposed she was, or she would have been if her sister hadn't come over and transplanted her mind into Jackie's, if Jackie had time to just sit with the news and process it according to her own values and dreams.”
― Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, A Kind of Freedom

“He introduced himself and I fell in love with him there and then. It took two minutes, at the most. It was like getting an anaesthetic. You start counting backwards from ten and you're out by the time you get to eight. Bang. Love.”
― Alexander McCall Smith

“Did they seem much wrapped up in each other?"
"To be candid, Elsa looked as if she were wrapped up in a horse-rug..."
[From "Wratislav"]”
― Saki, The Chronicles of Clovis

“If you hump away at menial jobs 360-plus days a year, does some kind of repetitive injury of the spirit set in?

I don't know and I don't intend to find out, but I can guess that one of the symptoms is a bad case of tunnel vision. Work fills the landscape; coworkers swell to the size of family members or serious foes. Slights loom large, and a reprimand can reverberate into the night.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America