Son of a Silverback Quotes

“My graduation day was the first time I realized that where and to whom you are born, something you cannot control, should never dictate what you can do … and anyone who tries to control people because of the accident of their birth needs to be called out and corrected.”
― Russell Kane, Son of a Silverback

“I think absorption is more about how interested you are, how deeply you are into something, than how long you do it for. To me, the literary world was like someone pulling you aside and telling you the most delicious gossipy secret, dripping in details that tattoo your consciousness. You don’t need to be intelligent to soak it up, you just need to be profoundly interested.”
― Russell Kane, Son of a Silverback

“It’s still my conflicted path. I have a bawdy sense of humour, I laugh at things I shouldn’t – yet I’m so angry at injustice and political incorrectness. That’s the intellectual cross-breed my dad and university created. A mongrel who bites the hand that teaches it.”
― Russell Kane, Son of a Silverback

“Turned out that although most of us are born into the level of wealth and success that we will enjoy for our entire lives, there is a hack, a cheat, that no one talks about, and that many cannot get the strength to execute. It’s called: working your tits off in solitude.”
― Russell Kane, Son of a Silverback

“Your birth is the best predictor of where you’ll end up. Sadly, at the time of writing, this is even more solidly true than ever. If your mum and dad are both ground-down manual labourers, if there are no books in the house, you’ll probably end up on a building site or, worse, doing nothing.”
― Russell Kane, Son of a Silverback

“Where you’re born, and who you’re born to, matters.”
― Russell Kane, Son of a Silverback

“It’s wanky, but at least once a week I make sure I take a moment out to relish how lucky I am.”
― Russell Kane, Son of a Silverback

“Dad, did his best to provide, but he also gave me something much more useful: he showed me what not to do – rather, how not to be.”
― Russell Kane, Son of a Silverback

“And of course, of all these styles of dadding, the most complex of the lot – and this was very common where I grew up – is Absent Dad, a nothing. The No-dad Dad seems sadly to be the most influential Dad of the lot.”
― Russell Kane, Son of a Silverback