“I like you, Dawn. I've seen a lot of humans, from far away and up close. I've never met one like you. I think you're the closest thing to a sunrise I'll ever see.”
― J.A. London, quote from Darkness Before Dawn
“The movie is all illusion. How people wish things were.”
― J.A. London, quote from Darkness Before Dawn
“Victor smiles. "I'll catch you before you even slip.”
― J.A. London, quote from Darkness Before Dawn
“In four hundred years, I’ve never dreamed. Vampires don’t. But after I saved you on the trol ey that night, you invaded my sleep. In my dreams, we’re the same. We can touch, kiss, love. And every dream ends with us … being together forever.”
― J.A. London, quote from Darkness Before Dawn
“For most vampires, it's an automatic response - scent blood, fangs drop.”
― J.A. London, quote from Darkness Before Dawn
“The vampires took everything from me, but I'm looking into the eyes of one who has the power to give me back a reason to live, who can heal my gaping hole of sorrow.”
― J.A. London, quote from Darkness Before Dawn
“I start to cross the street, stop, turn back. "You are not what I thought."
He smiles. A devastatingly beautiful smile.
I race across the street to my apartment building, to home, to safety. Because that smile scares me for reasons I can't explain. I only know that it makes me want to see him smile again.”
― J.A. London, quote from Darkness Before Dawn
“For some reason, I thought Victor could heal that wound better than anyone else. It's strange to think that this vampire, the embodiment of all my hatred, could act like a suture.”
― J.A. London, quote from Darkness Before Dawn
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“He doesn’t know who he’s making love to, I would think, and panic would slash through me until I reminded myself that it was over now, a freakish aberration not to be repeated. It was Hansen who first made me aware of shadow selves. He would lie in bed watching me for whole minutes, and I would look back into his eyes and wonder, What does he see? How can he not see the truth? Where is it hidden? It made me ask, when I looked at other people, what possible selves they were hiding behind the strange rubber masks of their faces. I could nearly always find one, if I watched for long enough. It became the only one I was interested in seeing.”
― Jennifer Egan, quote from Look at Me
“No, this length suits you. Lends you an air of a creature that has not yet been tamed.”
― Ginn Hale, quote from Lord of the White Hell, Book 1
“Who a person is will ultimately determine if their brains, talents, competencies, energy, effort, deal-making abilities, and opportunities will succeed.”
― Henry Cloud, quote from Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality
“Jesus offers unconditional grace; we are to offer unconditional grace. The mercy of Christ preceded our mistakes; our mercy must precede the mistakes of others. Those in the circle of Christ had no doubt of his love; those in our circles should have no doubts about ours. What does it mean to have a heart like his? It means to kneel as Jesus knelt, touching the grimy parts of the people we are stuck with and washing away their unkindnesses with kindness. Or as Paul wrote, “Be kind and loving to each other, and forgive each other just as God forgave you in Christ” (Eph. 4:32).”
― Max Lucado, quote from Just Like Jesus: Learning to Have a Heart Like His
“Wallander si avviò verso il distributore di bevande. Ma si rese conto di non averemonete.Un uomo anziano con due grucce uscì da una stanza muovendosi con grande fatica.Quando Wallander gli chiese se pote
sse cambiargli un banconota, l‘uomo scosse il capo,
mise la mano nella tasca della vestaglia e gli diede le monete necessarie per il caffè. Wallander rimase con la banconota tesa
senza sapere cosa fare.
―Morirò fra poco‖ disse l‘uomo sorridendo. ―Più o
meno fra due o tre settimane. Non
so proprio cosa farmene dei soldi.‖
L‘uomo si allontanò lentamente. Sembrava essere di ottimo umore.
Wallander lo seguì con uno sguardo ammirato. Spinse il pulsante sbagliato e fucostretto a bere un cappuccino, cosa che non faceva mai.”
― Henning Mankell, quote from One Step Behind
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