“The less people think of you, the more they will reveal to you or in your presence.”
― Lian Hearn, quote from Across the Nightingale Floor
“How was it possible for the world to be so beautiful and so cruel at the same time?”
― Lian Hearn, quote from Across the Nightingale Floor
“I believe the test of government is the contentment of the people.”
― Lian Hearn, quote from Across the Nightingale Floor
“But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world that we have to live.”
― Lian Hearn, quote from Across the Nightingale Floor
“When illusions are shattered by truth, talent is set free.”
― Lian Hearn, quote from Across the Nightingale Floor
“The painter had achieved what we would all like to do: capture time and make it stand still”
― Lian Hearn, quote from Across the Nightingale Floor
“It's what you do to yourself when you go mad with rage. You have no idea how much you can hurt yourself with your own strength.”
― Lian Hearn, quote from Across the Nightingale Floor
“Don't you know the man whose life you spare will always hate you?”
― Lian Hearn, quote from Across the Nightingale Floor
“I learned embroidery," Kaede said, "But you can't kill anyone with a needle."
"You can," Shizuka said offhandedly. "I'll show you one day.”
― Lian Hearn, quote from Across the Nightingale Floor
“Shame, however, was what I felt seeping through me as though it stained my white bones black.”
― Lian Hearn, quote from Across the Nightingale Floor
“The world is always outside. And it is in the world that we must live.”
― Lian Hearn, quote from Across the Nightingale Floor
“They reminded me of the people of my village, their indomitable spirit in the face of disaster, their unshakable belief that no matter what might befall them, life was basically good and the world benign.”
― Lian Hearn, quote from Across the Nightingale Floor
“Cuando era niño, solía llevar a casa animales del bosque (…) Nunca logré domesticarlos, porque lo único que querían, ciega e irracionalmente, era escapar.”
― Lian Hearn, quote from Across the Nightingale Floor
Lian Hearn
Born place: in Potten End, Hertfordshire, The United Kingdom
Born date August 29, 1942
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“Banyak hal dengan mudah terlupakan, seperti kita sama sekali lupa kenapa kita tidak bisa mengingatnya lagi. Sesuatu bisa begitu saja hilang dari ingatan, seperti arwah, seperti mimpi. Kita cuma bisa merasakan jejaknya pada diri kita tanpa bisa mengenalinya lagi. Kita tinggal benci, kita tinggal marah, tinggal takut, tinggal cinta. Kita tak tahu kenapa.”
― Ayu Utami, quote from Saman
“Bunny Slippers watched my appraisal for at least a full
minute before clasping his hands and resting them on the table.
“You stand in the doorway, clothes sticking to you like you just
got out of the shower and didn’t dry off.” I hadn’t dried off
actually. “Your hair is wet like it’s been raining, but it’s near
ninety outside. You glare at me for a good ten minutes before
you come over. Sit across from me in my booth, without an
invitation. Don’t introduce yourself. Don’t say hello. You
announce you’re not gay, but that I made you gay, and I am
confusing you?
Well, when he said it like that.”
― Dani Alexander, quote from Shattered Glass
“I used to be a girl who believed in fairy tales. You know, the whole knight in shining armour riding in on a white horse that would lead me to my happily-ever-after. About eight months ago I lost hope and faith that I would ever find my prince, or to be more exact, that my prince would ever realise I was the one for him as he tried out all the other princesses. But what I discovered was that I was in the wrong damn fairytale the whole time, chasing the wrong damn prince. There' a Psyche for every Eros, an Elizabeth for every Darcy, an Abby for every Travis. And I only hope you still want me to be the Angel to your Rat. All along I was wearing the wrong wings.”
― Erin Noelle, quote from Metamorphosis
“Sometimes things don’t work out as they’re planned, and there have to be sacrifices in order to make things better again.”
― Gail Tsukiyama, quote from Women of the Silk
“So their cheerleaders are ugly, their football players are wimps, and they're our archrivals because why?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Killer Spirit
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