“She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you're swimming and you want to put your feet down on something solid, but the water's deeper than you think and there's nothing there”
― Julia Gregson, quote from East of the Sun
“One of the the things she most liked about the city -apart from all its obvious attractions, the theatre, the galleries, the exhilarating walks by the river- was that so few people ever asked you personal questions.”
― Julia Gregson, quote from East of the Sun
“If you were lucky, very lucky indeed, there were one or two people in your life who you could tell the unvarnished truth too, shell and egg. And that these people held the essence of you inside them. The rest would be conversations that ended when night fell, or the dinner part ended.”
― Julia Gregson, quote from East of the Sun
“Estou sempre a fazer isto com as pessoas. Ponho-as de parte antes de as conhecer, ou acho que a simpatia, um certo tipo de abertura, é uma forma de fraqueza”
― Julia Gregson, quote from East of the Sun
“Gracias a la vida que me ha dado tanto”
― Julia Gregson, quote from East of the Sun
“Abril é o mês mais cruel, gera lilases da terra morta, mistura a memória e o desejo, mistura raízes dormentes com chuva de Primavera.”
― Julia Gregson, quote from East of the Sun
“He’d told her how orphaned birds would sometimes accept the most pathetic substitutes for their mothers—a pullover, a hot-water bottle, an armpit, or even a paper airplane—anything rather than nothing, but preferably something that moved.”
― Julia Gregson, quote from East of the Sun
“There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy”
― Julia Gregson, quote from East of the Sun
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“I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in Him or have Him brush your face in a breeze.”
― Donald Miller, quote from Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
“He and I had already had our time, and though it was still very close and real to me, as beautiful and poignant as any place on a map, it was, in truth, another time—another country.”
― Paula McLain, quote from The Paris Wife
“protected businesses never, never become competitive ... Halliburton, Bechtel, Parsons, KPMG, RTI, Blackwater and all other U.S. corporations that were in Iraq to take advantage of the reconstruction were part of a vast protectionist racket whereby the U.S. government had created their markets with war, barred their competitors from even entering the race, then paid them to do the work, while guaranteeing them a profit to boot - all at taxpayer expense.”
― Naomi Klein, quote from The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
“If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, quote from The Queen of Attolia
“Du hast recht, wir werden es nicht schaffen. Es ist besser, du verschwindest. Aber lass mich noch zwei Sachen sagen, bevor ich dir alles Gute wünsche: Erstens, das mit den Intellektuellen. Es ist leicht, sich über sie lustig zu machen. Ja, sehr leicht. Häufig sind sie nicht besonders muskulös, und sie prügeln sich auch nicht gern. Das Stampfen von Stiefeln, Medaillen, große Limousinen kann sie nicht groß bewegen, es ist also nicht sehr schwer. Es genügt, ihnen ihr Buch zu entreißen, ihre Gitarre, ihren Stift oder ihren Fotoapparat, und schon sind sie zu nichts mehr zu gebrauchen, diese unbeholfenen Tolpatsche. Übrigens, das ist das erste, was die meisten Diktatoren machen: Brillen kaputttreten, Bücher verbrennen oder Konzerte verbieten, das kostet sie nicht viel und kann ihnen in der Folge viele Unannehmlichkeiten ersparen. Aber du siehst, wenn intellektuell sein heißt, sich zu bilden, neugierig zu sein und aufmerksam, zu bewundern, erschüttert zu sein, verstehen zu wollen, wie alles zusammenhängt, damit man etwas weniger dumm ins Bett geht als am Abend zuvor, dann fordere ich dies für mich ein: Nicht nur bin ich dann eine Intellektuelle, ich bin auch noch stolz darauf. Sehr stolz sogar.”
― Anna Gavalda, quote from Hunting and Gathering
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