Suzanne Collins · 312 pages
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“Allow me to translate, Twitchtip said, not even bothering to move. "She said if you don't stop your incessant babble, that big rat sitting in the boat next to you will rip your head off.”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane
“You come up and read books?” asked Gregor. “Read them, eat them, whatever mood strikes me,”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane
“Any rats around?” asked Gregor. “Just the one on my back,” said Ares.”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane
“Luxa stood up, her face paler than usual. She went to her cousin, sat beside him, and put her arms around him. Pressing her forehead into his shoulder, she said, “She will fly with you always. You know this. She will fly with you always.”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane
“Everything bad was worse at the holidays, he knew that from the years of his dad’s absence. All around you were people in an extra-happy mood, and it just made your own hurt bigger.”
― Suzanne Collins, quote from Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane
“العجوز كيغا الذي عرّف إيغوشي على المنزل كان مخطئاً حين إيغوشي وصل إلى الدرجة نفسها التي وصل إليها العجائز كافة، فإيغوشي لم يفقد بعد ما يجعل منه رجلاً، وبالتالي لم يكن مفترضاً أن يتمكن من تفهم أسى العجائز الحقيقي بشكل عميق ولا أفراحهم ولا حسراتهم ولا وحدتهم ص 103”
― Yasunari Kawabata, quote from House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories
“I found myself within a forest dark,”
― Dante Alighieri, quote from Dante's Divine Comedy Set: Three-Volume Set
“Locking everyone up is not the solution,' she sighs, staring into a cup of coffee gone cold as The Box at Juvenile Hall. 'It's just the symptom of the problem. It's the proof that we're doing something wrong.”
― Edward Humes, quote from No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court
“It's gonna take me a lot longer than a year without you to get over you.”
― Estelle Maskame, quote from Did I Mention I Need You? (Did I Mention I Love You
“Nimrod began to understand that what he was experiencing was, in spite of its appearance of novelty, something which had existed before–many times before. His body began to recognize situations, impressions, and objects. In reality, none of there astonished him very much. Faced with new circumstances, he would dip into the fount of his memory, the deep-seated memory of the body, would search blindky and feverishly, and often find ready made within himself a suitable reaction: the wisdom of generations, deposited in his plasma, in his nerves. He found actions and decisions of which he had not been aware but which had been lying in wait, ready to emerge.”
― Bruno Schulz, quote from The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories
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