I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death
Maggie O'Farrell
Top 10 Best Quotes
“We are, all of us, wandering about in a state of oblivion, borrowing our time, seizing our days, escaping our fates, slipping through loopholes, unaware of when the axe may fall.”
“That the things in life which don't go to plan are usually more important, more formative, in the long run, than the things that do”
“I am desperate for change, endlessly seeking novelty, where i can find it.”
“Foreign experiences increase both cognitive flexibility and depth and integrativeness of thought,”
“I swam in dangerous waters, both metaphorically and literally. It was not so much that I didn't value my existence but more that I had an insatiable desire to push myself to embrace all that it could offer.”
“I can go for days without thinking about it; at other times it feels like a defining moment. It means nothing. It means everything.”
“The people who teach us something retain a particularly vivid place in our memories.”
“What I wish I had known, age twenty-one, as I cycled away from the results board towards the meadow by the river in Cambridge, where I would throw stones into the water and cry, is that nobody ever asks you what degree you got. It ceases to matter the moment you leave university. That the things in life which don’t go to plan are usually more important, more formative, in the long run, than the things that do.”
“I have this compulsion for freedom,for a state of liberation. It is an urge so strong, so all-encompassing that it overwhelms everything else. I cannot stand my life as it is. I cannot stand to be here, in this town, in this school. I have to get away.I have to work and work so that I can leave and only then can I create a life that will be liveable for me.”
“In any fairy-tale, getting what you wish for comes at a cost. There is always a codicil, an addendum to the granting of a wish. There is always a price to pay.”
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Book Keywords:
inspirational, escape-from-reality
