“It's the kind of leather seat that pulls you in, begs to to relax against it.”
― Allen Zadoff, quote from Boy Nobody
“You want to come back to the bank vault?” Jack says.
The bank vault. That’s what Jack calls his house.”
― Allen Zadoff, quote from Boy Nobody
“There was some violence a year ago. An important kid got shot during an attempted kidnapping while on spring break in Mexico. The Fortune 500 went security crazy. Now rich kids like Jack need a commando team to take a dump.”
― Allen Zadoff, quote from Boy Nobody
“You think that just because you’re in a politician’s house, you’re seeing the real person? Pretty naive, Ben.”
― Allen Zadoff, quote from Boy Nobody
“Your best kicks ass and takes names,” Jack says, and he punches my shoulder again.”
― Allen Zadoff, quote from Boy Nobody
“I listen as I walk down the hall, measuring off the seconds before she closes the door. With a friend, you might close it right behind them. With someone you’re interested in, you might wait a few seconds before closing. And with someone you’re falling for . . . With someone you’re falling for, you don’t go inside. You wait and watch them go. Just like she’s doing now.”
― Allen Zadoff, quote from Boy Nobody
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“At its best fashion is a game. But for women it's a compulsory game, like net ball, and you can't get out of it by faking your period. I know I have tried. And so for a woman every outfit is a hopeful spell, cast to influence the outcome of the day. An act of trying to predict your fate, like looking at your horoscope. No wonder there are so many fashion magazines. No wonder the fashion industry is worth an estimated 900 billion dollars a year. No wonder every woman's first thought is, for nearly every event in her life, be it work, snow or birth. The semi-despairing cry of "but what will I wear?" Because when a woman says I have nothing to wear, what she really means is there is nothing here for who I am supposed to be today.”
― Caitlin Moran, quote from How to Be a Woman
“- Там има сив патрул - промърмори Киун.
- Какво от това? - каза Румата. - Я по-добре чуй още едно разсъждение, уважаеми Киун. Ние обичаме и ценим тези прости и груби момчета, нашия боен добитък. Те са ни потребни. Занапред всеки от простолюдието трябва да си свива езика, ако не иска да увисне на бесилката. - Той се разсмя на глас, защото беше казан идеално - в най-добрите традиции на сивите казарми.
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- Езикът на простолюдието трябва да си знае мястото. Бог съвсем не му е дал език, за да плещи, а да лиже ботуша на господаря си, а на него от веки веков му се полага господар...”
― Arkady Strugatsky, quote from Hard to Be a God
“Dreams really do come true if you point yourself in their direction”
― Tina Reber, quote from Love Unrehearsed
“Even when I encountered racism outside Salmon Creek, it usually rolled off me. The worst of it often came from rednecks whipping past in rusted pickups. I looked at them and I looked at me-class leader, track star, straight-A student- and their slurs about dirty Indians and drunk Indians and dumb Indians were laughable.
Mom says crap like that comes from people who´ve accomplished so little in lifethat they feel the need to lift themselves above someone, anyone. So they pick skin color or religion or sexual orientation and say, "Well, I might not be much, but at least I´m not a ..." I´d look at those guys, and see the truth of her words.”
― Kelley Armstrong, quote from The Rising
“(...) every story one chooses to tell is a kind of censorship, it prevents the telling of other tales (...)”
― Salman Rushdie, quote from Shame
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