“Do what? Kill me? Then my blood would be on your hands—more than it already is—as well as that of your four dear friends. Because you, frater, are responsible for all this. You know it. You made me what I am.” “I made you nothing.” “Well said! Well said!” A dry, almost desiccated laugh came over the tiny speaker. Listening,”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Dance of Death
“When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Dance of Death
“Human beings are disgustingly predictable, and this is as true of psychopaths as it is of grandmothers.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Dance of Death
“nothing is impossible. you just need to learn how to bend the rules.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Dance of Death
“Resistance would be futile, and futility itself was, of course, to be resisted.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Dance of Death
“anyway, the money was great, but the corporate world just wasn't to my liking. i guess i'm not a team player--or an ass-kisser.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Dance of Death
“You could tell a lot about a person by meeting his brother.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Dance of Death
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“I guess we're oil and water. (Phoebe)
I'd say we're more like gasoline and a blowtorch. (Dan)”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, quote from It Had to Be You
“Walk straight ahead
Listen to no one
Trust not in the walls or doorways
For they will mislead
And close behind you
As you walk through
The forest, not knowing
Where you’ve come from
Or where you’re going …
If anywhere at all.”
― Renée Paule, quote from Just Around The Bend: Más o Menos
“At the wedding, women served a dish of cabbage that had been shredded by wooden kraut cutters, mixed with ground pork and onion, wrapped in bread dough, and baked.”
― Timothy Egan, quote from The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
“You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.”
― Emily Giffin, quote from Something Blue
“الحلم وقد أسىء فهمه:
إن أصل كل ميتا فيزيقا هو كون الإنسان، فى الأزمنة الأولى لحضارة لما تزل بدائية، قد اعتقد أنه اكتشف فى الحلم عالما حقيقيا ثانيا. لولا الحلم لما وجد الناس أدنى سبب لتقسيم العالم إلى قسمين. إن انفصال الروح والجسد يرتبط هو كذلك بأقدم تصور للحلم تماما مثل فرضية صورة جسدية للروح، كما يرتبط به إجمالا أصل كل اعتقاد فى الأرواح، وربما أصل الإيمان بالآلهة. "إن الميت يظل حيا، لأنه يظهر للأحياء فى الحلم.": هذا هو الاستدلال الذى ساد فيما مضى طيلة ألفيات.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Human, All Too Human
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