“Sure, they all have iPods, smartphones, whatever. Generally speaking, it’s in our own best interest to keep some kind of electronic device in their hands. Otherwise they might talk to us.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“It’s not the flying that’s the hard part; it’s the landing.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“The past has a will of its own. It wants to be heard.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“why worry about the monster beneath the bed when a very real bogeyman sleeps on top of it?”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“I know you have a past, but personally, I’m vested in our future.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“I’d clawed my way back to the land of the living. Because of Vero. She needed me.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“asked Thomas; it’s just him and me and has been for a very long time. We tell each other we are”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“look at him. But I can’t. Too many things are exploding in my head, and the memories are both simpler and more horrible”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“couloir étroit en l’aidant à contourner les obstacles, à savoir les camés en”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“chore. You didn’t like me doing”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“Because what is love if not an exercise in faith.
Because what is love if not perseverance.
Because what is love if not forgiveness.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Crash & Burn
“This is love if it's not with you, a terrible fiery something that makes people look away, and it feels like a punch in the throat.”
― Daniel Handler, quote from Adverbs
“It was Hitler’s style, his oratorical talents and his remarkable ability to transmit emotions and feelings in his speeches, that took him to the leadership of the ragtag party of misfits and adventurers that he joined in Munich in 1919 and that called itself the German Workers’ Party. The ideas he and the party spouted were all tattered; they were nothing but jargon inherited from the paranoid Austro-German border politics of the pre-1914 era, which saw “Germanness” threatened with inundation by “subject nationalities.” Even the combination “national socialist,” which Hitler added to the party’s name when he became leader in 1920, was borrowed from the same era and same sources. It was not the substance—there was no substance to the frantic neurotic tirades—that allowed the party to survive and later to grow. It was the style and the mood. It was above all the theater, the vulgar “art,” the grand guignol productions of the beer halls and the street.”
― Modris Eksteins, quote from Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
“I will meet the cruel and the cowardly today, she thought, liars and the envious, the uncaring and unknowing: they will be all around. But their numbers and their carelessness do not mean I have to be like them. For my own part, I know my job; my commissions comes from Those Who Are.”
― Diane Duane, quote from The Book of Night with Moon
“On men reprieved by its disdainful mercy, the immortal sea confers in its justice the full privilege of desired unrest.”
― Joseph Conrad, quote from The Nigger of the Narcissus
“State your HURRAAARRGLAB,” went the monarch.
“Mr. Wonderful,” said the advisor, daintily wiping the king’s mouth with a hanky. “What do we keep telling you about your interrogation methods? The information’s never reliable and it really hurts our image.”
“It’s all right,” I sighed. “This is my actual face.”
― Yahtzee Croshaw, quote from Mogworld
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