“You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from Der Goldkäfer
“...If you do not take it up with you in some way, I shall be under the necessity of breaking your head with this shovel”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from Der Goldkäfer
“No intentaré describir los sentimientos con que contemplaba aquello. El asombro, naturalmente, predominaba sobre los demás. Legrand parecía exhausto por la excitación, y no profirió más que algunas palabras.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from Der Goldkäfer
“—¡Y todo esto viene del escarabajo de oro! ¡Del pobre escarabajito, al que yo insultaba y calumniaba! ¿No te avergüenzas de ti mismo, negro? ¡Anda, contéstame!”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from Der Goldkäfer
“Legrand se hallaba en uno de sus ataques —¿Con qué otro término podría llamarse aquello?— de entusiasmo.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from Der Goldkäfer
“¡Es la cosa más encantadora de la creación! —¿El qué? ¿El amanecer? —¡Qué disparate! ¡No! ¡El escarabajo! Es de un brillante color dorado, aproximadamente del tamaño de una nuez, con dos manchas de un negro azabache: una, cerca de la punta posterior, y la segunda, algo más alargada, en la otra punta.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from Der Goldkäfer
“Sin mi idea arraigada a fondo de que había allí algo enterrado, todo nuestro trabajo hubiera sido inútil.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from Der Goldkäfer
“Cuando observaba yo aquel último y supremo síntoma del trastorno mental de mi amigo, no podía apenas contener las lágrimas.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from Der Goldkäfer
“Acaso un par de azadonazos fueron suficientes, mientras sus ayudantes estaban ocupados en el hoyo; acaso necesitó una docena. ¿Quién nos lo dirá?”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from Der Goldkäfer
“Desde aquel momento las pocas dudas que podía haber tenido sobre la demencia de mi pobre amigo se disiparon por completo.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from Der Goldkäfer
Edgar Allan Poe
Born place: in Boston, Massachusetts, The United States
Born date January 19, 1809
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“Loyalty is what matters, and that exists now, not in the past. Loyalty must be prove every day, in each piece of fresh-kill brought back to the Clan, every claw mark on our enemies, every patrol, every training session.”
― Erin Hunter, quote from Sunset
“If I could tell you how many times Noah lost his temper as a kid and set his parents’ house on fire—they were uncountable.” He shook his head. “Hell, Bella, the first time I shape-shifted it took me a week to figure out how to switch back.”
That made her release a soft, watery laugh.
“Oh, it gets better. Ask me what my first choice of animal was.”
“Nooo . . .”
“A pig. Not just any pig, mind you,” he said, talking over her startled laugh. “A huge, slobbery, grunting warthod. I had seen one at the zoo, and the next I knew . . .” Bella was laughing against her fists, trying to smother it with her fingers. “My father loved to tell the story for years about how he had to kidnap his own son from the zoo, a son who was so upset he squealed loudly the entire time his father was trying to smuggle him out. My father was a Demon of the Body, so he had no way of transforming me into a less conspicuous form of matter. He never let me live it down. Can you imagine? Centuries of being reminded of the most ridiculous moment of my life.”
― Jacquelyn Frank, quote from Jacob
“I fell into that kiss like Alice into Wonderland, headfirst and flailing, heart pounding the whole time. The world spun around me and still I fell, and I only crashed down to earth again when someone called my name.”
― Rachel Vincent, quote from If I Die
“What you feel about another person, what you think or say about another person, what you do to another person – you do to you. Give judgment and criticism and you give it to yourself. Give love and appreciation to another person or anything, and you give it to yourself.”
― Rhonda Byrne, quote from The Power
“I didn't ask to be made a princess."
This time all three of them laugh, although it is gentle enough.
"Who chooses their fate?" It is the third one, the tallest. "Who asks to be born into the times that are theirs?"
"Well, who accepts the world only as it comes to them?" she says, too quickly.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, quote from Under Heaven
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