“If you remember the why, the how will work itself out.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from Hunt for Jade Dragon
“I love to sleep. It’s like being dead without the commitment.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from Hunt for Jade Dragon
“Heroes are heroes precisely because they are willing to do what everyone else won’t—oppose the popular voice.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from Hunt for Jade Dragon
“They are like pythons in the jungle. The smallest child can crush a python egg. But let the snake hatch and grow and the python with squeeze and devour the child.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from Hunt for Jade Dragon
“Is that it?” Jack asked. “No. That is the Xing zheng yuan Hui an Xun fang Shu.” “I was just going to say that,” Tessa said.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from Hunt for Jade Dragon
“Но если бы мы взялись обсудить эту проблему хотя бы с теми же собаками, наверняка узнали бы, что и в их среде встречаются — пусть и в несколько упрощенной форме — эти чудовищные извращения: персонифицированное желание, слепая привязанность, стремление к безраздельному обладанию и даже любовь.”
― Philip Roth, quote from The Dying Animal
“So, is she giving you hell?”
“Who?”
“Hailey,” Finn replied.
Megan smirked. “Nothing I can’t handle.”
Finn turned away from his painting to smile at her. “Good,” he said.
For some reason, that simple word flooded Megan with relief. Maybe it was the way he said it. Like he was proud of her. Or impressed. Or not at all surprised.
“Maybe I’ll even make her repay you your Popsicle,” Megan quipped.
“That’s okay. I’m over Popsicles,” Finn said. “I’m more of a milk shake man now.” He pulled up on his belt loops and they both laughed.”
― quote from Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys
“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
“I have met free man in the strangest of places and at ALL ages.”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from Tales of Ordinary Madness
“Oh! Science! Everything has been revised. For the body and for the soul,--the viaticum,—there are medicine and philosophy,—old wives' remedies and popular songs rearranged. And the pastimes of princes and games they proscribed! Geography, cosmography, mechanics, chemistry!...
Science, the new nobility! Progress. The world marches on! Why shouldn’t it turn?
It is the vision of numbers. We are going toward the Spirit. There’s no doubt about it, an oracle, I tell you. I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, quote from A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat
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