“And that’s how I thought of love. Blue and infinite, clear but deep, where no man could truly reach. A deep blue eternity.”
― Natasha Boyd, quote from Deep Blue Eternity
“He already made up the largest part of my universe; why not make him the center?”
― Natasha Boyd, quote from Deep Blue Eternity
“All lies were black and destructive. A white lie was truly the blackest of all.”
― Natasha Boyd, quote from Deep Blue Eternity
“was achingly hollow inside, her words dropping like copper pennies down an empty well.”
― Natasha Boyd, quote from Deep Blue Eternity
“Some people may say he’s autistic,” I said. “Others may say he’s an angel,” Liv said. I nodded. “That too.” ”
― Natasha Boyd, quote from Deep Blue Eternity
“Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth,—a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, perfectly good-natured, but absolutely centered upon his own silly self. If anything could have driven me from Gladys, it would have been the thought of such a father-in-law. I am convinced that he really believed in his heart that I came round to the Chestnuts three days a week for the pleasure of his company, and very especially to hear his views upon bimetallism, a subject upon which he was by way of being an authority.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from The Lost World
“What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me--that is what I understand. And these two certainties--my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle--I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope which I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my condition?”
― Albert Camus, quote from The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“Los dioses han arreglado que por un tiempo estemos separados, para que nunca más lo estemos.”
― Gary Jennings, quote from Aztec
“I'm too honest to be positive.”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Bloodrose
“For when one is about to embark on some enterprise, it is precisely the books whose contents have nothing at all in common with the enterprise that are the most useful.”
― Franz Kafka, quote from The Complete Stories
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