“I hate running."
He laughed. "You know what's the best part about running?"
"What?"
"The stopping.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from First Days
“Did you finish yours, Kota?"
"Working on it now, Actually."
"How's it going?"
He sat up, turning in his chair and holding up his notebook. "I don't know. What rhymes with formaldehyde?"
My eyes widened. Gabriel laughed, rubbing his fingers against his forehead. "Dude, what kind of poem are you writing?"
Kota blinked at us. "It's about a doctor."
"Does the doctor fall in love?" Gabriel asked.
"No."
"Does someone die?"
"Not in the story, technically."
"What does he do?"
"He performs an autopsy.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from First Days
“Good afternoon, class," he said.
I said a soft good afternoon, but no one else in the class joined me.
Dr. Green laughed. "I think my class is missing. Did no one show up today? I'll have to mark everyone as absent. I believe I said good afternoon."
The room chorused a low murmuring of 'good afternoon' in reply.
"This won't do," Dr. Green said. "I'm here to teach you Japanese. I can't very well teach you English, too.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from First Days
“Heard you missed me", he said, half turning and looking down at me. The smile on his lips broadened. "And that you're beating up the boys at school in protest to get me to come back. Couldn't let that happen.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from First Days
“Marései o trópos pou gelás."
-Silas Korba”
― C.L. Stone, quote from First Days
“His eyes lit up again. “Kota was right about you.”
I tilted my head at him. “What did he say?”
“He said there’s this beautiful angel who has her heart on her sleeve and we have to keep her safe.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from First Days
“Kimi ga ite shiawase. Koi ni ochite shimatta.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from First Days
“You know what’s the best part about running?” “What?” “The stopping.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from First Days
“Whispers with our names hovered around us like mosquitoes.”
― C.L. Stone, quote from First Days
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“True perception is the means by which the world is saved from sin, for sin does not exist. And it is this that true perception sees.”
― quote from A Course in Miracles
“Страшна не сама смерть, не смертная боль от ножей жатки, не вопль, не окровавленные обрубки ног… но то, что так легко умереть, уйти из жизни прежде, чем снова созреет пшеница.”
― John Fowles, quote from Daniel Martin
“This is the most complicated relationship since Romeo and Juliet," she complained. "You're
both hopeless. I mean, what is the big problem? You love him. He adores you. You get together and live happily ever after. Any
questions? No, of course not. That'll be ten dollars, thank you.”
― John Marsden, quote from The Other Side of Dawn
“Truth, they say, is a cold and bitter draught; few drink it undiluted.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, quote from Byzantium
“الشخص الحذر الاقتنائي يشعر بالأمان, غير انه بالضرورة يعيش في خطر كبير, فهو يعتمد في وجوده على ما يملك من مال ومكانة وحيثية, اي على شيء خارجه, فما الذي يبقى منه إن هو فقد ما يملك ؟ ذلك أن كل ما يملكه الإنسان أو يقتنيه يمكن أن يفقده. وغني عن الذكر أن الشخص إذا فقد ممتلكاته فإنه يفقد ايضا مكانته واصدقائه, كذلك يمكن في اي لحظة, طال الزمن ام قصر, ان يفقد حياته ذاتها.
إذا كنت انا هو ما املك, ثم فقدت ما املك, فمن اكون ؟ لن يبقى سوى شاهد مهزوم متضائل مثير للشفقة .. شاهد على اسلوب حياة خاطئ. فحيث إني يمكن أن افقد ما املك فأنا بالضرورة في قلق وخوف دائمين من امكان حدوث هذا, انا في خوف من اللصوص والتقلبات الاقتصادية والثورات والامراض والموت, كذلك انا في خوف من الحب والحرية والتطور والتغير. وفي خوف من المجهول, هكذا دائما في خوف وقلق, اعاني من امراض الذعر والوسوسة المزمنة, ليس فقط من فقدان الصحة, وانما من فقدان اي شيء آخر املكه, هكذا اتحول الى كائن مشغول بالدفاع عن نفسه, موسوس وحيد تتملكني الحاجة لامتلاك مزيد من الاشياء التي انشد فيها مزيدا من الحماية.”
― Erich Fromm, quote from To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
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