“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
“I can't be friends with a man who blows hot and cold with the same breath.”
― Aesop, quote from Aesop's Fables
“here we were, fifty men and fifty women, with IQs over 150 and bodies of unusual health and strength, slogging elitely through the mud and slush of central Missouri, reflecting on the usefulness of our skill in building bridges on worlds where the only fluid is an occasional standing pool of liquid helium.”
― Joe Haldeman, quote from The Forever War
“This country’s drifting into serious trouble because of the clamor for simple and immediate solutions to complex problems that will take years to solve—even with total effort on both sides.”
― John Jakes, quote from North and South
“[...] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage.”
― Nick Hornby, quote from About a Boy
“Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize their militaries, saluting the uniforms of killers as cat owners stroke their animals' lovely fur and forgive their claws and fangs. He'd never seen anything in a cat's face but simpering incuriosity and self-interest; you only had to tease one with a mouse-toy to see where it's true heart lay...cats were all about using people”
― Jonathan Franzen, quote from Freedom
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