R.J. Ellory quotes

“Truth is truth, you are who you are, and though your viewpoint might change, and though you might possess a different perspective about something, your heart and what you believe and who you are inside is only ever you...and you have to follow your heart, you have to believe what you're doing is right, and no matter what anyone might say or think or do you have to trust yourself to make the right decision.”
-- R.J. Ellory

#Believe Quotes #Heart Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Love, I would later conclude, was all things to all people. Love was the breaking and healing of hearts. Love was misunderstood, love was faith, love was the promise of now that became hope for the future. Love was a rhythm, a resonance, a reverberation. Love was awkward and foolish, it was aggressive and simple and possessed of so many indefinable qualities it could never be conveyed in language. Love was being. The same gravity that relentlessly pulled at me was defied as I rose into something that became everything.”
-- R.J. Ellory

Source : R. J. Ellory (2010). “A Quiet Belief in Angels: A Novel”, p.221, The Overlook Press

#Heart Quotes #Healing Quotes #Simple Quotes

“Don’t ever stop writing. This is the way the world will find out who you are.”
-- R.J. Ellory

#Writing Quotes #Way Quotes #World Quotes

“Loneliness is a drug, a narcotic; it grows through veins, through nerves and muscles; it assumes some right of possession over your body and mind; it feeds itself, and creates its own requirement. Loneliness and solitude are walls.”
-- R.J. Ellory

Source : R. J. Ellory (2010). “A Quiet Belief in Angels: A Novel”, p.100, The Overlook Press

#Wall Quotes #Loneliness Quotes #Solitude Quotes

“Blame is a bitter and indigestible thing, even when the blame is a coat you cut for yourself, even when you stood right there and got yourself measured so you could wear it right.”
-- R.J. Ellory

#Cutting Quotes #Coats Quotes #Bitter Quotes

“Let the past be what it was, the present what it is, the future the best it can be.”
-- R.J. Ellory

Source : R. J. Ellory (2010). “A Quiet Belief in Angels: A Novel”, p.56, The Overlook Press

#Past Quotes

“Sorry is for the things you've done that you shouldn't have not for things you believe in.”
-- R.J. Ellory

Source : R. J. Ellory (2010). “A Quiet Belief in Angels: A Novel”, p.220, The Overlook Press

#Sorry Quotes #Believe Quotes #Done Quotes

“A life to hold, or to see slip through uncaring and inattentive hands, but always a life. And given one, we wish for two, or three, or more, so easily forgetting the one we had was spent unwisely”
-- R.J. Ellory

Source : R.J. Ellory (2013). “The R. J. Ellory Collection”, p.1441, Hachette UK

#Hands Quotes #Two Quotes #Wish Quotes

“Don’t ever stop writing. This is the way the world will find out who you are.”
-- R.J. Ellory

Source : R. J. Ellory (2010). “A Quiet Belief in Angels: A Novel”, p.248, The Overlook Press

#Writing Quotes #World Quotes #Way Quotes

“A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.”

“Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.”

“Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.”

“Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is”

“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”

“The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.”

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

“To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.”

“Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.”

“The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.”

Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.