“George didn't say a word. He felt quite trembly. He knew something tremendous had taken place that morning. For a few brief moments he had touched with the very tips of his fingers the edge of a magic world.”
― Roald Dahl, quote from George's Marvellous Medicine
“As George removed the cork and began very slowly to pour the thick brown stuff into the spoon,”
― Roald Dahl, quote from George's Marvellous Medicine
“I’m assuming you’re as mystified by this as the rest of us, Rasputin.
No. I’m not. I have been planning to destroy the Breakworld since I was a child.
[silence]
This is why I don’t make so many jokes. I never know when is good.”
― Joss Whedon, quote from Astonishing X-Men, Volume 4: Unstoppable
“غداً سأنتحر " قال لنفسه ، ثم أقفل عينيه ونام”
― Patrick Süskind, quote from The Pigeon
“It’s like when we read The Diary of Anne Frank in seventh grade, and I had the sneaking suspicion that I would have been a Nazi back then because I wouldn’t have had the guts to be anything else. I know that everyone wants to believe they would have been the brave one and they would have been the one to hide Anne in their attic and they would have killed Hitler with their own bare hands. But clearly if everybody thinks that way and in reality only a few people actually did it way back then, doesn’t that just make me the honest one?”
― Jennifer Mathieu, quote from The Truth About Alice
“The scars on her face had freed her of her demons. She thought herself ugly. I thought she was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen in my life.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“Snowden was horrified to discover that behind bars he would have no access to a computer.”
― Luke Harding, quote from The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man
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