Chris Adrian quotes

“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 Adrian

Source : 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.”
-- Chris Adrian

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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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“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.”
-- Chris Adrian

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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 Adrian

Source : 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 Adrian

Source : 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.”
-- Chris Adrian

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“I want to be a good creature for reasons beyond sharing a life with a good man.”
-- Chris Adrian

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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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“Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.”

“It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.”

Source : "Once upon a life" by A. N. Wilson, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2011.

“Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered time...I have turned the world upside down...And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.”

“Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.”

“Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

“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

“But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts”

“No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.”

“I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.”

“All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.”

Source : Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.52, Mondial