“I always had to buy a book, even if I wasn't done with the one I was currently reading. I loved to read. I felt like the trun of each page echoed between the covers of the world inside them-and each book had its own rules. There, within the mystique of that connection, was something special, and I was an addict.”
― Aaron M. Patterson, quote from Airel: The Awakening
“She stood and looked at James as if he was on clearance at Vanity, which was her favorite store at the moment.”
― Aaron M. Patterson, quote from Airel: The Awakening
“We can only love the way we were created to if we are first whole in ourselves.”
― Aaron M. Patterson, quote from Airel: The Awakening
“I was going to kill her. Murder, kill—and then for the kicker—unfriend her on Facebook.”
― Aaron M. Patterson, quote from Airel: The Awakening
“That’s what the school lunch program gets ya—food that could be barf, and barf that could be food. ”
― Aaron M. Patterson, quote from Airel: The Awakening
“Oh, to be a guy. But then I’d have to be a guy.”
― Aaron M. Patterson, quote from Airel: The Awakening
“There he was. Mr. Napkins. I was Miss Coffee Spill, and I so wanted to be Mrs. Napkins.”
― Aaron M. Patterson, quote from Airel: The Awakening
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“виждах останки от малки електроцентрали е миниатюрни турбини, електроцентралки, изработени от ръцете на работниците, които са секли гората, държави, които са живели тук и са били принудени да заминат… че е трябвало да заминат, че са изселени като ония богаташи, като ония, които движеха голямата политика, познати ми до болка, високомерни и безцеремонни, самодоволни и брутални, преливащи от гордост, която в крайна сметка ги съсипа, това разбирах, ала не разбирах защо е трябвало да си заминат и тези скромни работнически ръце, на чието място сега тук никой не работеше, мислех си, че е жалко за тези хора, които са имали единствено тежкия си труд в горите и малките нивички по склоновете, работници, които никога не са имали време да бъдат безочливи и горделиви, които сигурно са били хора покорни, защото на това ги е научил животът, в който сега аз надничах и срещу който бях тръгнал.”
― Bohumil Hrabal, quote from I Served the King of England
“But if it be never - if I can never hold sweet converse again with her, or look upon her face, or know from her her love; why, then, this side the grave, I will live as becomes the man whom she loves...”
― Anthony Hope, quote from The Prisoner of Zenda
“To everyone who enjoys ghost stories”
― Mary Downing Hahn, quote from Deep and Dark and Dangerous (A Ghost Story)
“He is nothing more than one of my pawns. However, he is not a normal pawn. He is a pawn that can get across the whole board in one move.”
― Yana Toboso, quote from Black Butler, Vol. 1
“There is a great deal of illusion in a work of art; one could go farther and say that it is illusory in and of itself, as a "work." Its ambition is to make others believe that it was not made but rather simply arose, burst forth from Jupiter's head like Pallas Athena fully adorned in enchased armor. But that is only a pretense. No work has ever come into being that way. It is indeed work, artistic labor for the purpose of illusion-and now the question arises whether, given the current state of our consciousness, our comprehension, and our sense of truth, the game is still permissible, still intellectually possible, can still be taken seriously; whether the work as such, as a self-sufficient and harmonically self-contained structure, still stands in a legitimate relation to our problematical social condition, with its total insecurity and lack of harmony; whether all illusion, even the most beautiful, and especially the most beautiful, has not become a lie today.”
― Thomas Mann, quote from Doctor Faustus
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