“Guilt. A painful, lonely feeling. It seeps into your pores slowly as you go through life day by day. Like a disease, it blackens your heart with thoughts and memories of what you did, or in my case, what you didn’t do.”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“Winston Churchill once said, 'Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“Sweetie, they're your feelings, so they can't be wrong. It's what you do with them that makes all the difference, but you have the right to feel what you feel.”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“Minutes — that's all it takes to change your entire life. How do you deal with that? Not”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“You'll always carry these memories in your heart, baby. As for tomorrow, you’ll get through it. We all will, and then we’ll get through the next day and the one after that. This whole town will; minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day. We will keep going.”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“But in reality...I excused myself and then stood in the hallway so I could hear every last word.”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“Minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day. You will keep going’,”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“The Ice Shack is gone, and in its place is a blood red sky with a dark funnel cloud cutting its way to her.”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“Tornado Safety Tip: If you can't get to safety, lie flat and face-down on low ground, and protect the back of your head with your arms.”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“Their faces are black and white, men, women and children, young and old. Death doesn’t discriminate.”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“Honey, it's Tanya. She didn't make it, sweetie,”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“Minutes—that’s all it takes to change your entire life.”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“recovered. Four from the group at the”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“One damn moment. That’s all it takes to change our lives,”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
“I have endured, and now I am ready to conquer.”
― Michele G. Miller, quote from From the Wreckage
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“The whole world is a court case… and we're all... defendants.”
― Emma Chase, quote from Overruled
“Należymy do gatunku składającego słowa jak ryba ikrę, produkujemy więcej kultury, niż jesteśmy w stanie przetrawić. W ciągu ostatnich lat pedantycznie zwalczaliśmy graffiti na stacjach metra, a jednocześnie wydajemy miliony koron na budowę nowych bibliotek narodowych. Tymczasem zapis pamięci narodowej może przyjąć również formę graffiti. Nietzsche porównał człowieka przejedzonego kulturą do węża, który połknął zająca, a teraz drzemie w słońcu, nie będą w stanie się ruszyć. Czas epigramatów już minął. Na przystani w Bryggen w Bergen znaleziono niewielki kawałeczek drewna z takim oto napisem runicznym: Ingebjørg kochała mnie, kiedy byłem w Stavanger. Fakt ten musiał wywrzeć pewne wrażenie na autorze napisu, podobnie zresztą jak na czytelniku, żyjącym osiemset czy dziewięćset lat później. Dzisiaj oszczędny w słowach autor, chcąc uwiecznić jedną schadzkę z Ingebjørg, dorzuciłby do pamięci potomnych czerystustronicową powieść. Albo też zadręczyłby życie swoim współczesnym wpadającymi w ucho popularnymi piosenkami w stylu 'Nie ma jak z Ingebjørg, nie ma jak z Ingebjørg'. Paradoks polega na tym, że gdyby przez wszystkie osiemset lat napisano równie wiele powieści, jak w latach siedemdziesiątych, to nikt z nas nie byłby w stanie przebrnąć przez tak obfitą tradycję piśmiennictwa i nie dotarłby do prostej, lecz przyjemnej historii o Ingebjørg. (...) Namiętna historia miłośna została odarta ze wszystkiego aż do kości, lecz mimo to niesie za sobą mnóstwo konotacji. Ponadto pewnych rzeczy czytelnik może się domyślić. Dostał do ręki coś, nad czym dalej może pracować jego wyobraźnia. Po czterystustronicowej powieści trudno jest samemu coś wymyślić.”
― Jostein Gaarder, quote from The Ringmaster's Daughter
“There is a proverb my grandmother used to repeat: Old sins have long shadows.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Elephants Can Remember
“Shyness is shit. It isn’t cute or feminine or appealing. It’s torment, and it’s shit.”
― Octavia E. Butler, quote from Bloodchild and Other Stories
“if I had a book or a drink then I didn’t think too much of other things—fools create their own paradise.”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Last Night of the Earth Poems
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