
“When I had asked why they were taking English, a boy said: "To help us in real life."”
Part I, ch. 5 (Sylvia Barrett)
Up the Down Staircase (1965)
Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior
“When I had asked why they were taking English, a boy said: "To help us in real life."”
Part I, ch. 5 (Sylvia Barrett)
Up the Down Staircase (1965)
“She glanced at him. “What gods do you respect?”
“None.”
“And why not?”
“I help myself,” he said.”
Source: Wild Seed (1980), Chapter 1 (p. 20)
“I don’t know why I ever helped you.”
“Because you like broken things.”
Variant: I don't know why I ever helped you."
"You like broken things.
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
Interview http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jun/13/mia-feature-miranda-sawyer, quote on her father to The Observer (2010)
Sourced quotes
Source: Difficulties with Girls (1988), Ch. 11, p. 158
Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 2, hadith number 237
Sunni Hadith