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A wolf needs no path but his own and no weapons but the gifts he was given.

More often it is through sorrow that the path of life is illuminated.

Only violent folk who choose peace can truly be called ‘peaceful’. Those with no capacity for violence aren’t peaceful. They’re just harmless.

There are some things you must learn for yourself, and how to find happiness is one of them.

Even if you loved someone with all your heart, there were times when you had to let them grieve alone and make their own mistakes and wait until they found their way back to you.

Someone had once told Isabel that you didn’t really know a man until you divorced him and then the truth about his soul would come tumbling out, for good or for bad, but now she wondered if the real way to understand a man was to witness how he reacted to his father’s death.

Their mother had told them that cake was always helpful: you can have it for breakfast or lunch, you can have it while you’re celebrating or when your heart is about to break, and you can always share it with someone you love.

“It’s likely she loves you more than she blames you,” Mr. Hawley said. “The worst part is when you blame yourself.”

In Abrahamic religions, the emphasis is on God's communication with humanity through chosen prophets, while in Eastern religions, the focus is on recognising the inherent divinity within oneself and realising one's connection to the ultimate reality or divine essence.

In my native faith, there was no overarching concept of an angry, vengeful God, not was there a disdain for atheists or non-believers. Instead, there was an understanding that individuals would follow their unique spiritual paths, each seeking truth and meaning.

As always, I am a prisoner of a soul whose doors and windows are shut.

They weren’t very good at fighting. I mean, it was a lactose intolerant versus a gluten allergic. I think they hurt each other worse with their farts than with their fists.

Lucas is happy. This is a very provoking thing to the world. Because people aren’t supposed to be happy, they’re only supposed to want to be happy, because how otherwise are you supposed to be able to sell things to them? More than anything people are supposed to pretend to be happy on the internet so that other people are reminded of how unhappy they themselves are by comparison. Humanity has a system.

Back in the city, their classmates have panic attacks and social anxiety. They have eating disorders and self-harm. But every summer, Zee and Callum and our neighbors’ kids run free with sand in their hair and sunburn on their noses, and they go back to the city with a force field of self-confidence and independence that keeps them safe.

It was so good for sixteen years. Until the Litvaks.

‘Joy is the thief of time, and time is the thief of joy...’

Reading the prophecies gave Lenson this same maddeningly unpin-downable sense of intellectual dissatisfaction on top of his boredom, so he did the only logical thing he could about it: He fell asleep, tablet in hand.

In our world, everyone thinks they’re in the right. Battles aren’t of good against evil, but one man’s good against another’s.

People were people. They lived and loved, lied and cheated, scowled and grimaced, laughed and raised children.

It may not have been intentional, but the birth of the IPL became cricket's moment of azaadi, the tipping point that gave it freedom from control and restrictions. Just as India's liberalisation policies in the 1990s unshackled an economy chained by regulation and control, the IPL freed up cricket and unlocked its potential.

Dressing Room Quotes

- Comment on Shoaib Akhtar's action: Kuchh to sharam honi chahiye.
- Comment on Saeed Anwar: He has a rule that you don't field after making a century.
- Comment on Shahid Afridi: Can't bat or bowl but is good at fighting and creating problems. 😂😂😂

Alex Tudor and Andrew Caddick are part of the England team and Sachin is worried their bowling arm will go over the screen. It strikes me then that the great man is yet to get his name on the honours boards, although he has a hundred here from a Lady Diana charity match.

He had run and run and run, made music, made millions, spent a lifetime trying to put as much distance between himself and the old man as he could. Now, with a little luck, he and his father might die on the same day.

Jude read that anyone who held open the golden door of mortality, for a peek at the other side, risked letting something through, and that the ill, the old, and those who loved death were especially in danger. The tone was assertive and knowledgeable, and Jude was encouraged until he read that the best method of protection was to wash yourself in urine.

Sometimes a paving stone is essential on the path to mine pure jade.

It was another nice day in the high desert. It was always a nice day, if by nice you meant an air temperature like an oven and sand you could roast chestnuts on.

No-one is more worried by the actual physical manifestation of a god than his priests; it's like having the auditors in unexpectedly.

Camels have a very democratic approach to the human race. They hate every member of it, without making any distinction for rank or creed.

All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed.