Joanne Harris · 307 pages
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“I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Five Quarters of the Orange
“It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her.”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Five Quarters of the Orange
“It's never too late to come home," he said, and pulled me gently, insistently toward him."All you have to do...is stop moving away.”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Five Quarters of the Orange
“Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Five Quarters of the Orange
“Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured from bud into fruit; it deserves reverance. Joy. Gentleness.
(Page 194.)”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Five Quarters of the Orange
“This is something different again. A feeling of peace. The feeling you get when a recipe turns out perfectly right, a perfectly risen souffle, a flawless sauce hollandaise. It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her.”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Five Quarters of the Orange
“People grieve in different ways, some silently, some in anger, some in spite. Rarely does grief bring out the best in people, despite what local historians like to tell you.”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Five Quarters of the Orange
“Сладката ми Писташ. Толкова търпелива и невзискателна. Откъде би могла да знае как се чувства човек с такава твърда буца в сърцето? Никога не е изпитвала подобно нещо. Може да ме обича, дори да ми прощава, но не може да ме разбира. Вероятно така е по-добре за нея.”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Five Quarters of the Orange
“At five in the morning the Loire is still and sumptuous with mist. The water is beautiful at that time of the day, cool and magically pale, the sandbanks rising like lost continents. The water smells of night, and here and there a spray of new sunlight makes mica shadows on the surface.”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Five Quarters of the Orange
Joanne Harris
Born place: in Barnsley, The United Kingdom
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― Anaïs Nin, quote from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
“No love is Love that subjugates the Lover.
No love is Love that feeds on flesh and blood.
No love is Love that draws a woman to a man only to breed
more women and men and thus perpetuate their bondage to the flesh.”
― Mikhail Naimy, quote from The Book of Mirdad: The Strange Story of a Monastery Which Was Once Called the Ark
“His mother was standing before him,”
― quote from Little Pilgrim's Progress: From John Bunyan's Classic
“The words of mere men are as naught against the Word of God.”
― Gil Courtemanche, quote from A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
“to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing”
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