“A coward is a servant of his fears.
A hero enslaves his fears.”
― Lera Auerbach, quote from Excess of Being
“Realized dreams often turn into nightmares.”
― Lera Auerbach, quote from Excess of Being
“There are only
two types of composers:
composing composers
and decomposing composers.”
― Lera Auerbach, quote from Excess of Being
“Conflict occurs
when two pasts step
on the toes of the present.”
― Lera Auerbach, quote from Excess of Being
“To come up with one great sentence, one needs to serve a life sentence.”
― Lera Auerbach, quote from Excess of Being
“Death defines life. I'd rather stay undefined.”
― Lera Auerbach, quote from Excess of Being
“I need a whole other life not to let this one go to waste.”
― Lera Auerbach, quote from Excess of Being
“I have inflammation of the imagination.”
― Lera Auerbach, quote from Excess of Being
“Kendinize ait parçalar vardır, sayısız parçalar, bunları bir kez feda ederseniz bir daha asla yerine koyamazsınız.”
― Lisa Gardner, quote from Live to Tell
“He loved her. It was dead simple, the way he loved her. Seamless. His love was like a wall that he'd built around her, and there wasn't a chink or flaw in it. Or so he thought. But then she started to float out of the real world, his world, and he was like a little boy trying to dam a stream with stones and mud, knowing that the water would always break through at a place he wasn't looking at. There was nothing desperate about the way he did it, though. He was always calm, it seemed. Expecting the worst and determined not to crack. She started to get up in the night and turn on all the taps, and he would get up too and stand quietly beside her watching the endless flow of water as if he found it as fascinating as she did. Then he'd guide her back to bed before turning the taps off. One night I heard something and went into the living room and saw the two of them standing out on the balcony. He'd wrapped his dressing gown around her, and I heard him say, "Yes, you are right, Marijke. The traffic is like a river of stars. Would you like to watch is some more, or go back to bed?”
― Mal Peet, quote from Tamar
“I knew there was something that separated me from Ferdinand and the life of the bush about me. And it was because I had no means in my day-to-day life of asserting this difference, of exhibiting my true self, that I fell into the stupidity of exhibiting my things.”
― V.S. Naipaul, quote from A Bend in the River
“Did you find anything?"
"Nothing of interest. People fleeing. Poorly trained guards unable to believe an attack would occur within a royal knowe, thus proving that they possess an insufficient grasp of historical fact.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from One Salt Sea
“Well, that's marriage these days. Legalized hate.”
― Philip K. Dick, quote from Now Wait for Last Year
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