“Darkness reveals truths that no sun can bring to light, for inside the heart of man resides a beast, only tamed by the shackles of the day.”
― Felix O. Hartmann, quote from Dark Age
“If I had known That day follows the night, That every shadow is cast by light, I would have understood The actions that he took.”
― Felix O. Hartmann, quote from Dark Age
“Life is like riding a ship into the storm. For every wave you take up, you have to drop just as deep.”
― Felix O. Hartmann, quote from Dark Age
“For every God there is a Satan, and because God made all of us godly, there is a Satan in us all.”
― Felix O. Hartmann, quote from Dark Age
“You must become your enemy to truly understand him.”
― Felix O. Hartmann, quote from Dark Age
“Knowledge is power. The moment the masses acquire this power, control fades. And when control fades, chaos erupts.”
― Felix O. Hartmann, quote from Dark Age
“Power is like a house of cards. Leave it alone and it will stand forever. But if you try to build it higher and higher, sooner or later it is bound to collapse.”
― Felix O. Hartmann, quote from Dark Age
“The men history declares heroes are merely heroes because they failed to survive their benevolent acts.”
― Felix O. Hartmann, quote from Dark Age
“Call it devilish or divine, but once a man lets a thought become prevalent, it turns into reality.”
― Felix O. Hartmann, quote from Dark Age
“Sometimes we hold the world in our hands, but in our greed for more let it fall, losing everything that we once had.”
― Felix O. Hartmann, quote from Dark Age
“Our cure for pain is the very root of it: Revenge.”
― Felix O. Hartmann, quote from Dark Age
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“Normality; show me normality, señor caballero, and I will show you an exception to the abnormal order of the universe; show me a normal event and I shall call it miraculous because it is normal.”
― Carlos Fuentes, quote from Terra Nostra
“Why now?”
He squeezed his eyes shut to deny the truth, but she deserved more. When he finally opened his eyes, he let her see it all. “Because I want you. I’ve always wanted you, Carina. I don’t deserve you, or this night, but the idea of another man touching you makes me want to beat the shit out of him.”
The smile that lit up her face punched straight through his chest. “Well, okay then. Let’s go.”
― Jennifer Probst, quote from The Marriage Mistake
“She'd even violated the only sensible rule of dieting she'd ever run across, the sage advice of the Muppets' Miss Piggy, who recommended never eating anything bigger than your head.”
― Susan Donovan, quote from He Loves Lucy
“America, secure in its fortress of neutrality, watched the war at a remove and found it all unfathomable. Undersecretary of State Robert Lansing, number two man in the State Department, tried to put this phenomenon into words in a private memorandum. “It is difficult, if not impossible, for us here in the United States to appreciate in all its fullness the great European War,” he wrote. “We have come to read almost with indifference of vast military operations, of battle lines extending for hundreds of miles, of the thousands of dying men, of the millions suffering all manner of privation, of the wide-spread waste and destruction.” The nation had become inured to it all, he wrote. “The slaughter of a thousand men between the trenches in northern France or of another thousand on a foundering cruiser has become commonplace. We read the headlines in the newspapers and let it go at that. The details have lost their interest.”
― Erik Larson, quote from Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
“Inzwischen geht es ihm besser, manche Tage seien schon fieberfrei, auch die Träume, in denen er Baron Humboldt erwürge, zerhacke, erschieße, anzünde, vergifte oder unter Steinen begrabe, würden seltener.”
― Daniel Kehlmann, quote from Measuring the World
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