Chloe Taylor > Chloe's Quotes

“It begins with absence and desire.
It begins with blood and fear.
It begins with a discovery of witches.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“Where there are bees there are flowers, and wherever there are flowers there is new life and hope.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“But in Syria there is a saying: inside the person you know, there is a person you do not know.”
― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“You don't have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.”
― Jojo Moyes, After You

“The only way to avoid being left behind was to start moving.”
― Jojo Moyes, After You

“You learn to live with it, with them. Because they do stay with you, even if they’re not living, breathing people any more.
It’s not the same crushing grief you felt at first, the kind that swamps you, and makes you want to cry in the wrong places, and get irrationally angry with all the idiots who are still alive when the person you love is dead.
It’s just something you learn to accommodate.
Like adapting around a hole. I don’t know. It’s like you become … a doughnut instead of a bun”
― Jojo Moyes, After You

“If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“A miscarriage is lonely, painful, and demoralizing almost on a cellular level. When you have one, you will likely mistake it for a personal failure, which it is not.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Do the best you can, until you know better, and crucially when you know better, do better.”
― Clemmie Telford, But Why?: How to answer tricky questions from kids and have an honest conversation with yourself

“The more we avoid difficult issues, the more damage we do, as it means we make things taboo.”
― Clemmie Telford

“So we need to be willing to get it wrong or admit when we've reached the limit of our knowledge but at the same time we do need to try to find some kind of sensible response.”
― Clemmie Telford, But Why?: How to answer tricky questions from kids and have an honest conversation with yourself

“We all start out as blank canvases but soon our par.
ents unconsciously begin to mould us. Their fears, opinions and version of truth become ours. This is why it sometimes feels like perspectives aren't moving at all. That out-of-date comment from your mate about a gay person is shocking, but often it's not their voice you're really hearing; it's a lingering generational hangover.”
― Clemmie Telford, But Why?: How to answer tricky questions from kids and have an honest conversation with yourself

“When I was a kid, I wish I had known that; it's hard to find time to read, jump in the sea and climb trees when you're a grown-up, so do as much as you can now! Romantic love takes everyday work and there is no Prince Charming galloping over the horizon. All the little things you find funny about yourself are beautiful and unique and loveable.”
― Clemmie Telford, But Why?: How to answer tricky questions from kids and have an honest conversation with yourself

“When I was a kid, I wish I had known that; just because someone wasn't kind to me, it didn't mean I was a bad person.”
― Clemmie Telford, But Why?: How to answer tricky questions from kids and have an honest conversation with yourself

“The greatest burden a child must bear is the unlived
life of its parents.”
― Clemmie Telford, But Why?: How to answer tricky questions from kids and have an honest conversation with yourself

“When I was a kid, I wish I had known that. I already had a perfect life; it was one without worry or stress and every day I woke up only thinking of that one. Too many people spend their lives sacrificing their health to gain money, when at the end of their lives they would give every penny back to regain their health, live a simple life, see the world and make many
people smile along the way.”
― Clemmie Telford, But Why?: How to answer tricky questions from kids and have an honest conversation with yourself

“Mable said they are going to lock us all in. Prisoners in our homes. But that is why I must learn to get out. When I lock myself in, that is one thing. When someone else holds the keys, well, that occupies a different rank on the hierarchy of fear".”
― Ilona Bannister, Little Prisons

“One has to learn how to distinguish real gold from tinsel. It is hard because tinsel sometimes glitters so dazzlingly.”
― Shaun Usher, Letters of Note: Mothers

“Life is scary, and it’s glorious. You’re never going to get it all right. You’ll get it deliciously messed up, and that will be part of figuring out who you are.”
― Shaun Usher, Letters of Note: Mothers

“Don’t stop learning and studying. If you really want to, you will reach your goal.”
― Shaun Usher, Letters of Note: Mothers

“Obviously, you did not die. Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.”
― Shaun Usher, Letters of Note: Mothers

“You are at once a lasting presence and an unhealed wound.”
― Shaun Usher, Letters of Note: Mothers

“The worth of a person’s life lies not in the number of years lived; rather it rests on how well that person has absorbed the lessons of that life, how well that person has come to understand and distil the multiple, messy aspects of the human experience.”
― Shaun Usher, Letters of Note: Mothers

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Cultural relativism' is a respect for other cultures in which a person (social worker) from one culture has no right to judge another culture using his / her own cultural standards.”
― Sharon Shoesmith, Learning from Baby P

“Natural love" is a 'generally accepted belief", of which social workers are a part, that parents have an instinctive love and sense of protection towards their children which is embedded in their human nature.”
― Sharon Shoesmith, Learning from Baby P

“In particular, engagement with YouTube, Facebook and weblogs was associated with beneficial effects such as feeling better, the sense of not being alone, and the efficacy to cope with the extreme situation.”
― Sharon Shoesmith, Learning from Baby P: The politics of blame, fear and denial