“Just behind his jaw bones a tiny movement was perceptible, like the movement of gills in a fish.”
― John Collier, quote from Fancies and Goodnights
“How happy I might be, if only she was less greedy, better tempered, not addicted to raking up old grudges, more affectionate, with slightly yellower hair, slimmer, and about twenty years younger! But what is the good of expecting such a woman to reform?”
― John Collier, quote from Fancies and Goodnights
“Their laughter was like the stridulation of the ghosts of grasshoppers.”
― John Collier, quote from Fancies and Goodnights
“Franklin Fletcher dreamed of luxury in the form of tiger-skins and beautiful women. He was prepared, at a pinch, to forgo the tiger-skins. Unfortunately the beautiful women seemed equally rare and inaccessible. At his office and at his boarding-house the girls were mere mice, or cattish, or kittenish, or had insufficiently read the advertisements.”
― John Collier, quote from Fancies and Goodnights
John Collier
Born place: in London, The United Kingdom
Born date May 3, 1901
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“Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from Windmills of the Gods
“I cried for the little girl who lost her father but never had a mother. I cried for the girl who only wanted to be accepted, but was never enough. I cried for the girl who suffered unfathomable pain at the hands of hate. I cried for the girl who deserved to be loved but didn't know how.”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Out of Breath
“You insisted on thinking of them as angels, even if they were fallen angels.”
― L.P. Hartley, quote from The Go-Between
“ومع ذلك ، ومثلما يحدث في الحياة ، عندما نظن أنهم قد انتزعوا منا كل شئ ، ثم نكتشف فجأة أنه قد بقي لدينا شئ ما ، تظهر هنا أيضا أشياء مبعثرة ، ....”
― José Saramago, quote from The Cave
“I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught.”
― Erin Gruwell, quote from The Freedom Writers Diary
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