Chris Adrian quotes
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“It seemed a marvel to her that any mortal should suffer for lack of love, and yet she had never known a mortal who didn't feel unloved. There was enough love just in this ugly hallway, she thought, that no one should ever feel the lack of it again. She peered at the parents, imagining their hearts like machines, manufacturing surfeit upon surfeit of love for their children, and then wondered how something could be so awesome and so utterly powerless.”
-- Chris AdrianSource : Chris Adrian (2011). “The Great Night: A Novel”, p.31, Macmillan
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“If I showed you what was in my heart," she said, "it would burn you to a cinder. "I've tried to burn you similarly," it said, "but you never even noticed when I opened my chest.”
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“If there’s a magic pony in the story, chances are I’ll read it.”
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“But as surely as the moon rises and the sun sets, depravity passes down through the ages, because there is always a gap between who we are and who we should be, and our parents, molested by regret, conceive us under the false hope that we will be better than them, and everything they do, every hug and blow, only makes certain that we never will be.”
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“It takes four angels to oversee an apocalypse: a recorder to make the book that would be scripture in the new world; a preserver to comfort and save those selected to be the first generation; an accuser to remind them why they suffer; and a destroyer to revoke the promise of survival and redemption, and to teach them the awful truth about furious sheltering grace.”
-- Chris AdrianSource : Chris Adrian (2012). “The Children's Hospital”, p.32, Granta Books
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“I am...sad and angry. Why is my spirit so sad and angry? I look back at my life and all I can remember is rage and rage and rage.”
-- Chris AdrianSource : Chris Adrian (2012). “The Children's Hospital”, p.305, Granta Books
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“When people ask me which I would rather give up, writing or medicine, it's like being asked which eye I'd prefer to have poked out with a spoon: neither, and please use a fork.”
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“I want to be a good creature for reasons beyond sharing a life with a good man.”
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“If there’s a magic pony in the story, chances are I’ll read it.”
-- Chris Adrian
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Source : "Once upon a life" by A. N. Wilson, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2011.
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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“A divided heart loses both worlds.”
Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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“No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.”
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“I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.”
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Source : Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.52, Mondial
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