“Secrets are like flowers buried under snow. Eventually they rise up and push through into the light.”
― Dacre Stoker, quote from Dracula the Un-Dead
“Evil comes in shades of gray, not black and white.”
― Dacre Stoker, quote from Dracula the Un-Dead
“I prefer to play English characters. They have a knack for dying well. I have made my career superbly playing well-died Englishmen.”
― Dacre Stoker, quote from Dracula the Un-Dead
“Right or wrong, black or white. Live or die. In peace, he was lost in a sea of gray. Now it was time for war.”
― Dacre Stoker, quote from Dracula the Un-Dead
“Man had created light and cut himself from the Heavens.”
― Dacre Stoker, quote from Dracula the Un-Dead
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“Tim Mason. The human equivalent of C-4.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, quote from The Boy Most Likely To
“it isn't blood that makes you my sister
it's how you understand my heart
as though you carry it
in your body”
― Rupi Kaur, quote from The Sun and Her Flowers
“You sound like a nice man,” the woman said. “Do I? Well, that’s nice of you to say.” He knew he should hang up now, but it was good to hear a voice, even his own, in the quiet room.”
― Raymond Carver, quote from Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
“A child dragging bent useless legs is crawling up the hill outside the village. Nose to the stones, goat dung, and muddy trickles, she pulls herself along like a broken cricket. We falter, ashamed of our strong step, and noticing this, she gazes up, clear-eyed, without resentment—it seems much worse that she is pretty. In Bengal, GS says stiffly, beggars will break their children’s knees to achieve this pitiable effect for business purposes: this is his way of expressing his distress. But the child that lies here at our boots is not a beggar; she is merely a child, staring in curiosity at tall, white strangers. I long to give her something—a new life?—yet am afraid to tamper with such dignity. And so I smile as best I can, and say “Namas-te!” “Good morning!” How absurd! And her voice follows as we go away, a small clear smiling voice—“Namas-te!”—a Sanskrit word for greeting and parting that means, “I salute you”.”
― Peter Matthiessen, quote from The Snow Leopard
“Kat had her arms folded and her hair was tied in what girls call a topknot. Her skinny, bony face jutted out. With her tilted chin and dark eyebrows she seemed sharper, somehow, as if she was more in focus than other people round her, or more real. You couldn't help noticing her, whether you were looking for her or not.
Maybe that's what being pretty meant, I thought. ”
― Siobhan Dowd, quote from The London Eye Mystery
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