“I love stories with a happy ending,” Inspector Me said.”
“We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone happy , no greater flattery than to grant him a vein of melancholy ... This is because gaiety is linked to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he is alone.”
“His hand lay across my stomach as he slept soundly. I entwined my fingers with his and breathed through the warmth that seeped through my chest. Such a simple, sweet thing to do, yet holding hands in bed was incredibly intimate.”
“It s about the quality of the worry, I said. I have happier worries now than I used to.”
“You will never get everything in life but you will get enough.”
“It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you can.”
“It s not my job to make you happy. It s your job to learn that only those who quit selfishly seeking their own happiness find it.”
“If you are happy, don’t analyse your happiness, don’t ask questions and don’t even think about it; just live it to the fullest!”
“Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of lucky happenstance. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves.”
“For you where never my blood sister so no more shall I call you little sister”
“Being sad with the right people is better than being happy with the wrong ones.”
“Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want. - Jim Rohn”
“To be happy, you have to risk being unhappy.”
“We may not be in Manchester but we will always be united”
“Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I m free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it s good, isn t it? Quite good, indeed.”
“ Sugar, aint you ever had no good time? she said with a bit of sadness in her voice. What you mean? Sugar said,... Seems to me that I ain t never see you look up from whatever you were doing and just smile. Just smile? Smile at what? At who? Smile into the air, girl! she said and waved her arm through the air....you better start, cause time is running and a life without good times ain t a life worth having.”
“You re into what you re into, I m into what I m into. We don t have to be into the same shit, and if you re safe, sane, and happy, then go on and get you some.”