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"I was standing fairly close to Spiro so that when he turned round he found himself staring into a toad's face. Spiro's scowl faded, his eyes bulged, and his skin took on a greenish hue; the resemblance between him and the toad was quite remarkable."

"That bloody boy. . . . Every matchbox in the house is a deathtrap. . . ." when Gerald had put scorpions in the Matchbox just out of curiousity!

It was as though villa and landscape were half asleep, lying there drugged in the spring sunshine, giving themselves up to the moss, the ferns, and the crowds of tiny toadstools.

"There is a lot of romanticism in cricket and we tend to revere those bowlers and players more who are visually appealing."

"... cricket historians, perhaps more than chronicles of other sports, suffer from acute nostalgia."

"It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadness." What a start!

"Taking ­people’s candy away is always worse than there being no candy at all."

"Honesty can be very overrated, while a good lie can give someone peace of mind when there isn’t a goddamn thing they can do about the awful shit at the center of the truth."

“You learn a lot about someone when you show them a gun."

"...a young widower in good circumstances, in Bengal, is as rare as a blue rose."

"The universe hates happy ­people, that much I’m sure of. You need to cultivate a taste for colorful misery.”

"If you wanted to win against the odds, you had to carry the fight to the enemy."

"... a book is as dangerous as any journey you might take. The person who closes the back cover may not be the same one that opened the front one."

"Truth is an axe. Without judgement it's swung in great circles, wounding everybody."

There is, in the act of destruction, a beauty which we try to deny, and a joy which we cannot.

"Fate is what happens when you don’t run fast enough. Keep moving and fate gets dizzy.”

"Death claims us all in the end, but the warrior chooses the ground on which she meets it..."

"Hunger lies beneath all of our ugliest transactions."

Finally... Finally... Finally... Godot has arrived. I never had been this much excited before reading any book especially a hardback *flaunts an imported book*. I hope the hype does not kill me. Fingers crossed!

"Writing does not resurrect. It buries." All those feels!

"Even though I hated the sympathy people felt towards me, I couldn't help but feel it towards him."

"All salvation is temporary."

"Caution is the first care of those accustomed to face occasional charlatanry and imposture."

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."

It’s like a joke the Irish used to tell.
“What do you call a dead Englishman?” “What?"
"A good start.”

"No matter which God is in charge, we’re bugs on his windshield. Always were. Always will be. Amen."

"Part of the job description for Lucifer is “ruthless bastard,” and even if I was a joke when it came to running Downtown, I was employee of the month when it came to saving my own skin."

"If every day was car chases and sawing ­people’s heads off, I’d be the Pope of Lucky Town."

"Being alone is worse than being somewhere bad.”

As crack is to an addict, Sandman Slim is to me! 😛