“There could never be innocence in a world without justice.”
― Tim Bowler, quote from Frozen Fire
“Doesn't seem right, does it? A split second to lose him and a lifetime to grieve over him.”
― Tim Bowler, quote from Frozen Fire
“I feel apart from everything and a part of everything.”
― Tim Bowler, quote from Frozen Fire
“Days, weeks, months, years," said the boy. "Minutes and hours and seconds. I don't know about any of those things.”
― Tim Bowler, quote from Frozen Fire
“She knew it was the right decision, even though she was still scared. Doing nothing would achieve nothing.”
― Tim Bowler, quote from Frozen Fire
“Because I'm dangerous. I don't mean to be but I am. I'm dangerous to be around, dangerous to everybody. I cause harm. I might even harm you. And I couldn't bear that.”
― Tim Bowler, quote from Frozen Fire
Tim Bowler
Born place: Devon, The United Kingdom
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“Except I do care about being pretty. Der. I don't think there's a single person in the world who doesn't care about being pretty. Any female, at any rate.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Prom Nights from Hell
“Happy, Muriel? No, not happy. Your aim is wrong. There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death.”
― Jean Toomer, quote from Cane
“He could not consent to allow himself to be insulted, still less to allow himself to be treated as a rag, and, above all, to allow a thoroughly vicious man to treat him so. No quarrelling, however, no quarrelling! Possibly if some one wanted, if some one, for instance, actually insisted on turning Mr. Golyadkin into a rag, he might have done so, might have done so without opposition or punishment (Mr. Golyadkin was himself conscious of this at times), and he would have been a rag and not Golyadkin - yes, a nasty, filthy rag; but that rag would not have been a simple rag, it would have been a rag possessed of dignity, it would have been a rag possessed of feelings and sentiments, even though dignity was defenceless and feelings could not assert themselves, and lay hidden deep down in the filthy folds of the rag, still the feelings there...”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, quote from The Double
“The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.”
― Allan Bloom, quote from The Closing of the American Mind
“[...] und sie hört, wie er sich in sein Doppelbett legt, auf seine Seite, da er nicht auf Helens Seite schlafen kann, wo er heimlich drei ihrer bestickten Kissen arrangiert hat und sich zum Schlafen ihnen zuwendet, ein Arm um das mittlere Kissen gelegt, den anderen unter dem Kopf, wobei seine Hand wie zum Schutz auf seiner Stirn ruht.”
― Amy Bloom, quote from Away
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