“You string people along long enough, the string withers, then it breaks - Seamus”
― James Patterson, quote from I, Michael Bennett
“You string people along enough, the string withers, then it breaks - Seamus”
― James Patterson, quote from I, Michael Bennett
“Because frying bacon is how we stoic Irishmen say I love you.”
― James Patterson, quote from I, Michael Bennett
“Her eyes, they shone like diamonds I thought her the queen of the land And her hair, it hung over her shoulder Tied up with a black velvet band.”
― James Patterson, quote from I, Michael Bennett
“love New York City from the Battery to the Bronx, but”
― James Patterson, quote from I, Michael Bennett
“Something once lost will never return”
― Yana Toboso, quote from Black Butler, Vol. 1
“He remained seated on his revolving stool, turned toward us, hands between his knees, in a position the same as ours, and with a few words concluded his lecture on the question of why Beethoven had not written a third movement to Opus 111. We had needed only to hear the piece, he said, to be able to answer the question ourselves. A third movement? A new beginning, after that farewell? A return — after that parting? Impossible! What had happened was that the sonata had found its ending in its second, enormous movement, had ended never to return. And when he said, “the sonata,” he did not mean just this one, in C minor, but he meant the sonata per se, as a genre, as a traditional artform — it had been brought to an end, to its end, had fulfilled its destiny, reached a goal beyond which it could not go; canceling and resolving itself, it had taken its farewell - the wave of goodbye from the D-G-G motif, consoled melodically by the C-sharp, was a farewell in that sense, too, a farewell as grand as the work, a farewell from the sonata.”
― Thomas Mann, quote from Doctor Faustus
“The bastard. It's bad enough knowing he's stolen our money,but it's humiliating having to watch him spend it.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
“We followed the bondage Bobbsey Twins across the crowded dance floor. Those leather shorts were an adventure from behind, let me tell you.
And the pictures of Elvis decorating the walls were an education, too. It wasn’t often you ran into a bondage/Elvis/ whorehouse-themed vampire
club.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead Reckoning
“Omigod,' I said on a sudden flash of sleep-deprived insight. 'You're the big bad wolf.'
There are some similarities.”
― Janet Evanovich, quote from Twelve Sharp
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