“I’ve never fully trusted people who don’t like dogs. They rarely turn out well.”
― A.J. Hartley, quote from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
“And so the Scots grew restless, moaning all the time as only they could.”
― A.J. Hartley, quote from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
“The prince put the dagger on the table. “Sorry.”
Yorick bent forward and looked up into his eyes. “Don’t forget our respective places here. I’m your clown. Your plaything. Your toy. Scarcely human. No need to apologise.”
― A.J. Hartley, quote from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
“If you wanted reflections on the nature of the universe and your place in it, you should have stayed in school. You want fart noises and cock jokes, I’m your man.”
― A.J. Hartley, quote from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
“What kind of love demands the life of another? A child at that?”
“Danish love, my sweet. Can’t you smell it?”
― A.J. Hartley, quote from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
“Where on earth do you get a rose in Elsinore in the middle of winter?” “Don’t you want it?” She took the flower from him, kissed his cheek. No bristles. No beard. A clean-shaven man with a kind and amiable face. Scheming. She didn’t doubt it. But he was a diplomat by training. It was only to be expected. And if he’d lacked those skills perhaps neither of them would have managed Old Hamlet’s death, the marriage, the succession so easily.”
― A.J. Hartley, quote from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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“Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.”
― Bill Bryson, quote from I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
“It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, quote from Red Mars
“اننا فخورون باننا لسنا خاضعين لاية قوة خارجية, واننا احرار في التعبير عن افكارنا ومشاعرنا ونحن نأخذ بثقة ان هذه الحرية تكاد تضمن على نحو تلقائي آلي فرديتنا. وعلى اية حال, فان حق التعبير عن افكارنا لا يعني شيئا الا اذا كان قادرين على ان تكون لنا افكار من انفسنا, ان التحرر من السلطة الخارجية هو مكسب اخير اذا ما كانت الظروف السيكولوجية الباطنية هي بشكل يمكننا من تأسيس تفرديتنا. فهل نحن حققنا ذلك الهدف او اننا على الاقل نقترب منه ؟”
― Erich Fromm, quote from Escape from Freedom
“Get used to being spoiled. Not too much longer now. You know how much I love you because I’m handing over my balls momentarily to type the next song title, but fuck if it’s not true –Halo, Beyonce. Whew. Balls back in place now. And hey, there’s a lot of dressed up women down here, how will I know which one is you?”
― K. Bromberg, quote from Crashed
“The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.”
― Lew Wallace, quote from Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
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