“Even the most difficult things which you think you'll never get over you do get over, and in a trice you find they're behind you and you have to go on. New things await you.”
― Niccolò Ammaniti, quote from I'll Steal You Away
“Questo ti volevo dire. Ho rotto il nostro patto ma forse é stato meglio così. Ora basta però, non ti voglio rattristare. Mia madre mi ha detto che sei bellissima e io lo sapevo. Quando eravamo piccoli ero sicuro che saresti diventata miss Italia. P.s. Preparati, che quando passo da Bologna ti prendo e ti porto via.”
― Niccolò Ammaniti, quote from I'll Steal You Away
“La cosa, si disse, sarebbe passata perché nella vita le cose passano sempre, come in un fiume. Anche quelle difficili che ti sembra impossibile superare, le superi, e in un attimo te le trovi alle spalle. Devi andare avanti. Ti aspettano cose nuove.”
― Niccolò Ammaniti, quote from I'll Steal You Away
“Je moet begrijpen dat mensen niet gemaakt zijn om zichzelf toon te stellen, maar om een ruimte te vinden waarin ze in harmonie met de hemel en de aarde kunnen leven.”
― Niccolò Ammaniti, quote from I'll Steal You Away
“كان سعيدًا كقطعة من اللحم في صلصة الطماطم”
― Niccolò Ammaniti, quote from I'll Steal You Away
“Je zult zien, je zult zien, ooit wordt alles anders, morgen nog niet misschien, maar ooit wordt alles anders. Je zult zien, je zult zien, het is nog niet voorbij. Ik weet niet hoe en ik weet niet waar, maar je zult zien, ooit wordt alles anders.”
― Niccolò Ammaniti, quote from I'll Steal You Away
“Je moet die mensen die zeggen dat je je de pleuris moet werken om de goede dingen van het leven te kunnen waarderen, niet geloven. Dat is niet waar. Die willen je naaien. Genot is een religie en het lichaam is de tempel.”
― Niccolò Ammaniti, quote from I'll Steal You Away
“لا بد أن الشجاعة هي ما تنقصني لإيذاء الآخرين”
― Niccolò Ammaniti, quote from I'll Steal You Away
“تذكر جيدًا أول قاعدة في الحياة: تعلم أن تتحمل عبء ذنوبك. هل فهمت؟”
― Niccolò Ammaniti, quote from I'll Steal You Away
“Il piacere è una religione e il corpo è il suo tempio.”
― Niccolò Ammaniti, quote from I'll Steal You Away
“In this particular Billy was a striking instance that the arch interferer, the envious marplot of Eden, still has more or less to do with every human consignment to this planet of Earth. In every case, one way or another he is sure to slip in his little card, as much as to remind us—I too have a hand here. The”
― Herman Melville, quote from Billy Budd and Other Stories
“When the moment of departure arrived, Catherine and Peter accompanied Johanna on the short first stage of her journey, from Tsarskoe Selo to nearby Krasnoe Selo. The next morning, Johanna left before dawn without saying goodbye; Catherine assumed that it was “not to make me any sadder.” Waking up and finding her mother’s room empty, she was distraught. Her mother had vanished—from Russia and from her life. Since Catherine’s birth, Johanna had always been present, to guide, prompt, correct, and scold. She might have failed as a diplomatic agent; she certainly had not become a brilliant figure on the European stage; but she had not been unsuccessful as a mother. Her daughter, born a minor German princess, was now an imperial grand duchess on a path to becoming an empress.”
― Robert K. Massie, quote from Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
“No one ever said this marriage was going to be fair,”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Gate of Night
“Moses told me once that you can’t escape yourself. You can run, hide, or die. But wherever you go, there you’ll be.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Song of David
“The red-jacketed band stirred to life. The first musician raised his trumpet. The trombone dipped. The drumstick rose. Lea lowered her clarinet. It had been Brent's idea not to have their insturments rise and fall in unison. The staggered motion gave it a more exciting rhythm.”
― Paul Fleischman, quote from Whirligig
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