“And although they were still sad-they were together.”
Source: I Can't Believe They're Gone: A kid's grief book that hugs, helps, and gives hope
“After all, the English are really too much. One can't live in that constipated fashion forever.”
Source: The Spider's House
“27. So often, we go through our battles in private. As it was with me and with many of the women in my generation. We were taught and reared and molded to keep that stiff upper lip and to never explain in public how deeply some people have hurt us. I cannot get away from that mold. I am comfortable in it. I derive my sanity from it.”
“The smell nearly distracted me from my task, but no-I remained steadfast. Stiff upper lip, Watson! Action! Answers!
THEN bacon.”
Source: The Hell-Hound of the Baskervilles
“You know the only rule you need to know to get on in this country? ‘Never complain, never explain.”
Source: Hearts and Minds
“I put my chin up and tried to stiffen my upper lip, but found I didn't seem to have any muscles in it.”
Source: The L-Shaped Room
“If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“For the most part, we make an effort to treat each other as though we were equal, and that often involves tactfully ignoring the ways in which we are not. Much of what gets called "social skill" involves inducing the feeling of equality in the face of all the facts that challenge this feeling.”
Source: Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
“If he was paralyzed, we'd have to put in ramps and have things altered for wheelchair access; you can get kitchens refitted; bathrooms altered ... I'd get him a really fast wheelchair. It'd be OK. If he couldn't talk, I'd get him a great computer. Anything can be dealt with, everything can be overcome. Just be alive. Just, please God, I beg you, please, please keep him alive for me.”
Source: On The Edge
“Behind him, his PA, Mrs Partridge, sat scratchpad in hand, making the Sphinx look like a collection of facial tics.”
Source: When a Child is Born