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21 " Your world shrinks as you grow older. You become Gulliver in your very own Lilliput. "
― C.J. Tudor , The Chalk Man
22 " Better to be a fool than an angel. "
23 " 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. "
24 " No one ever found any answers at the bottom of a bottle. Not the point, of course. The point of reaching the bottom of the bottle is generally to forget the questions. "
25 " People say there’s nothing stronger than love. They’re right. That’s why the worst atrocities are always committed in its name. "
26 " ...I understood how things can change in an instant. All the stuff we take for granted can just be ripped away. "
27 " Being an adult is only an illusion. When it comes down to it, I’m not sure any of us ever really grow up. "
28 " Assuming can trip us up in other ways too. It can stop us seeing people for who they really are and make us lose sight of the people we know. "
29 " It’s a sad fact that beauty, real beauty, just eclipses everything and everyone around it. "
30 " Love isn’t a choice. It’s a compulsion. "
31 " We assume things because it’s easier, lazier. It stops us thinking too hard…usually about stuff that makes us feel uncomfortable. But not thinking can lead to misunderstandings and in some cases, tragedies. "
32 " My life is one long wreck of 'should haves', crashing into each other in a big tangled mess of regrets. "
33 " People you feel obliged to hang around with out of habit and history rather than any real desire for their company. "
34 " All the stuff we take for granted can just be ripped away "
35 " I don’t think how you act in this life makes any difference after you die. Good or bad. But it does make a big difference while you’re alive. To other people. That’s why you should always try to treat them well. "
36 " None of us is ever really prepared for death. For something so finite. As human beings, we’re used to being able to control our lives. To extend them, to an extent. But death brooks no argument. No final plea. No appeal. Death is death, and he holds all the cards. Even if you cheat him once, he won’t let you call his bluff a second time. "
37 " Karma. What you sow, you reap. You do bad things and they’ll come back eventually and bite you on the backside. "
38 " Ideas, when you're a kid, are a bit like seeds scattered in the wind. Some don't make it; they get carried away on the breeze, forgotten about and never mentioned again. Others take root. They dig their way down, they grow and they spread. "
39 " Truth has a habit of simply being the truth. The only real choice you have is whether to believe it or not. "
40 " That’s the thing with adults. Sometimes it doesn’t matter what you say; they only hear what they want to hear. "