“Now it's the dark's turn to be afraid.”
― Joseph Delaney, quote from Curse of the Bane
“The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance.”
― Joseph Delaney, quote from Curse of the Bane
“The moon shows the truth of things.”
― Joseph Delaney, quote from Curse of the Bane
“Ive chosen my path - and right or wrong, it's the one I tread.”
― Joseph Delaney, quote from Curse of the Bane
“But if everything's already decided, then what's the point of living? - Tom, pg 437”
― Joseph Delaney, quote from Curse of the Bane
“Sometimes in this life it is necessary to sacrifice oneself for the good of others . - Mam”
― Joseph Delaney, quote from Curse of the Bane
“Most things look better from a distance...And as a matter of fact, so do most people. - The Spook, pg 435”
― Joseph Delaney, quote from Curse of the Bane
“Did you finish the key?” I asked him.”
― Joseph Delaney, quote from Curse of the Bane
“And then...
And then Thomas Hunter dreamed, and the world would never be the same.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Green: The Beginning and the End
“(ghost of)ACHILLES: How can I force obedience on this? In other times I've used the fear of death to make a woman bow herself to me. If not the fear of her own death, then fear for someone else, a husband or a child. How can I bend this woman to my will?
(ghost of)POLYXENA: I think I will not bend.
IPHIGENIA: You see, it's as we've tried to tell you, Great Achilles. Women are no good to you dead.”
― Sheri S. Tepper, quote from The Gate to Women's Country
“The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He preferred our wild, desperate guesses to silence, and he was even more delighted when those guesses led to new problems that took us beyond the original one. He had a special feeling for what he called the "correct miscalculation," for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers.”
― Yōko Ogawa, quote from The Housekeeper and the Professor
“I guess I'm just feeling Septemberish," sighed Chester. "It's getting towards autumn now. And it's so pretty up in Connecticut. All the trees change color. The days get very clear―with a little smoke on the horizon from burning leaves. Pumpkins begin to come out.”
― George Selden, quote from The Cricket in Times Square
“...vlastito tijelo nastanjivala je poput mačke. Nije mi bila toliko lijepa koliko egzotična, premda je izraz možda pretjeran za ono što želim reći. Sposobnost da se ostavi dojam, bilo bi to vjerojatno točnije onomu što pokušavam reći, određeni samodostatni izgled koji je čovjeka tjerao da je poželi gledati čak i kad bi samo besposleno sjedila”
― Paul Auster, quote from Leviathan
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