R.J. Ellory Quotes

• Let the past be what it was, the present what it is, the future the best it can be.

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  Past

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

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• 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.

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  Believe, Heart, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Healing, Heart, Simple

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

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• 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.

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  Wall, Loneliness, Drug

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

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• 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

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  Hands, Two, Wish

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

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• Don’t ever stop writing. This is the way the world will find out who you are.

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  Writing, World, Way

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

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• 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.

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  Cutting, Coats, Bitter

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• Sorry is for the things you've done that you shouldn't have not for things you believe in.

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  Sorry, Believe, Done

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

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