“It’s funny how we always search for reasons not to love—fear of suffering, fear of abandonment—but the love of life, oh, how much you can take for granted until you realize that, one day, you’re going to lose all of it.”
― Marc Levy, quote from All Those Things We Never Said
“„Vidiš“, reče on sjedajući, „to je čudno, ali pronalazimo svakojake
razloge ne bismo li spriječili sebe da volimo, zato što se plašimo da
ćemo patiti, da ćemo jednog dana biti ostavljeni. Volimo, međutim,
život, iako znamo da će nas on jednog dana napustiti.”
― Marc Levy, quote from All Those Things We Never Said
“"Nada podrá sustituir nunca el contacto humano”
― Marc Levy, quote from All Those Things We Never Said
“Prekasno je samo kada se nešto više ne može promijeniti.”
― Marc Levy, quote from All Those Things We Never Said
“„Pamćenje je neobičan umjetnik, mijenja boje
života, briše ono što je nezanimljivo i čuva samo ono najljepše i
najuzbudljivije.”
― Marc Levy, quote from All Those Things We Never Said
“Već sam ti rekao da prestaneš da se bojiš riječi. Važno
je da koristimo prave riječi.”
― Marc Levy, quote from All Those Things We Never Said
“Hay sólo dos maneras de ver la vida: una como si nada fuera un milagro y la otra como si todo fuera milagroso.”
― Marc Levy, quote from All Those Things We Never Said
“Women are fickle, you know. And men are idiots.”
― Marc Levy, quote from All Those Things We Never Said
“Some might say the most hurt you can cause is through cowardice.”
― Marc Levy, quote from All Those Things We Never Said
“Humor can be like a coat of armor when reality takes a stab at you.”
― Marc Levy, quote from All Those Things We Never Said
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein”
― Marc Levy, quote from All Those Things We Never Said
“I gave up pouring my heart out to his personal assistant a long time ago. Talking to the man himself is damn near impossible. Always on a business trip or in a meeting. No way he’d make time for his daughter.”
― Marc Levy, quote from All Those Things We Never Said
“Sharing your life with someone for whom your feelings are shaky at best—how can that be anything but a lie, a betrayal? Do you have even the faintest notion of what life looks like when the person you’re with treats you like a stranger?”
― Marc Levy, quote from All Those Things We Never Said
“Deep down, Julia had always known that this artistic escape was a vain attempt to find clarity and comfort.”
― Marc Levy, quote from All Those Things We Never Said
“Hello darkness, my old friend,” Lana half sang, half whispered. “I’m coming to talk with you again.”
― Michael Grant, quote from Hunger
“Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble – and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb, too. The imagination and spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Ideology—that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors. That was how the agents of the Inquisition fortified their wills: by invoking Christianity; the conquerors of foreign lands, by extolling the grandeur of their Motherland; the colonizers, by civilization; the Nazis, by race; and the Jacobins (early and late), by equality, brotherhood, and the happiness of future generations.... Without evildoers there would have been no Archipelago.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, quote from The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
“You're naming your collector's-item, kick-ass sword that's made to maim and kill, specifically designed to bring your ginormous enemies to their knees and hear the lamentation of their women-Pooky Bear?"
"Yeah, you like it?”
― Susan Ee, quote from World After
“Very impressive. Where did you learn that?"
Made it up just now.”
― John Flanagan, quote from The Battle for Skandia
“There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course.”
― Cheryl Strayed, quote from Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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