The Chalk Man
C.J. Tudor
Top 10 Best Quotes
“What shapes us is not always our achievements but our omissions. Not lies; simply the truths we don’t tell.”
“We think we want answers. But what we really want are the right answers. Human nature. We ask questions that we hope will give us the truth we want to hear. The problem is, you can’t choose your truths. Truth has a habit of simply being the truth. The only real choice you have is whether to believe it or not.”
“Being an adult is only an illusion. When it comes down to it I’m not sure any of us ever really grow up.”
“Principles are nice things. If you can afford them. I like to think I am a principled man, but then, most men do. The fact is, we all have a price, we all have buttons that can press to make us do things that are not entirely honorable. Principles do not pay the mortgage or clear our debts. A principled man is generally a man who has everything he wants or absolutely nothing to lose.”
“He's dead.' 'Dead?' Funny how people always repeat that word, even though they know they've heard it correctly. A kind of denial by delay.”
“History itself is only ever a story, told by the ones who survive it.”
“They were chanting a lot of stuff about love but they seemed full of hate.”
“Being an adult is only an illusion. When it comes down to it I’m not sure any of us ever really grow up. We simply grow taller and hairier. Sometimes, I still feel amazed that I am allowed to drive a car, or that I have not been found out for drinking in the pub. Beneath the veneer of adulthood, beneath the layers of experience we accrue as the years march stoically onwards, we are all still children, with scraped knees and snotty noses, who need our parents … and our friends.”
“People you feel obliged to hang around with out of habit and history rather than any real desire for their company.”
“It’s a sad fact that beauty, real beauty, just eclipses everything and everyone around it.”
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Book Keywords:
principles, principle, death-and-dying
