“My heart felt like a cold ember. Last night it flamed with hope. Today it was coated with ashes.”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Garden of Shadows
“I could almost believe that a love as passionate as theirs had been would enable them to reach across the abyss between life and death and join hands for some precious moments every night.”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Garden of Shadows
“recalling vividly the love scene I had just witnessed. How much I had been cheated! How much of what should be every woman’s was not mine and”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Garden of Shadows
“they had slept like babies. “Which proves how important it is for a man to return home,”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Garden of Shadows
“El dia quedo teñido de negrura y, a partir de entonces, todos mis dias han sido negros”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Garden of Shadows
“Queria desgarrar la Tierra, destruir el suelo hasta que no quedase nada”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Garden of Shadows
“El Señor nos lo ha dado, el Señor nos lo ha quitado”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Garden of Shadows
“Pero en alguien tan lleno de vida, amor y esperanza, la sombra de la muerte no se detiene por mucho tiempo, al contrario de lo que nos ocurre a quienes carecemos ya de esperanzas y sueños”
― V.C. Andrews, quote from Garden of Shadows
V.C. Andrews
Born place: in Portsmouth, Virginia, The United States
Born date June 6, 1923
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“Worth dying for. Worth killing for. Worth going to hell for.Amen.”
― Frank Miller, quote from Sin City, Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye
“In Bletchley, in Britain, in 1943, in total secrecy, a brilliant mathematician, Alan Turing, is seeing his most incisive insight turned into physical reality. Turing has argued that numbers can compute numbers. To crack the Lorentz encoding machines of the German forces, a computer called Colossus has been built based on Turing’s principles: it is a universal machine with a modifiable stored program. Nobody realises it at the time, least of all Turing, but he is probably closer to the mystery of life than anybody else. Heredity is a modifiable stored program; metabolism is a universal machine. The recipe that links them is a code, an abstract message that can be embodied in a chemical, physical or even immaterial form. Its secret is that it can cause itself to be replicated. Anything that can use the resources of the world to get copies of itself made is alive; the most likely form for such a thing to take is a digital message—a number, a script or a word.”
― Matt Ridley, quote from Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
“It will all be better in the end and if it is not better then it must not be the end yet”
― Dean Koontz, quote from From the Corner of His Eye
“the brilliant book Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman describes seven key abilities most beneficial for human beings: the ability to motivate ourselves, to persist against frustration, to delay gratification, to regulate moods, to hope, to empathize, and to control impulse. Many of those who commit violence never learned these skills. If you know a young person who lacks them all, that’s an important pre-incident indicator, and he needs help.”
― Gavin de Becker, quote from The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
“I wasn't enjoying the conversation that much. I didn't want to prolong it. It is the sort of man-to-woman infight that I try whenever possible to ascribe to premenstrual tension. I like the theory, but unfortunately in this case I happened to know that it didn't account for Klara, and of course it leaves unresolved at any time the question of how to account for me.”
― Frederik Pohl, quote from Gateway
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