“I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.”
― Chris Cleave, quote from Incendiary
“Before you bombed my boy Osama I always thought an explosion was such a quick thing but now I know better. The flash is over very fast but the fire catches hold inside you and the noise never stops…I live in an inferno where you could shiver with cold Osama. This life is a deafening roar but listen. You could hear a pin drop.”
― Chris Cleave, quote from Incendiary
“You may think that's funny Osama but you never can squeeze every last bit of pride out of a human being. It's like a tube of toothpaste. You can twist it and you can crush it but there's always a tiny bit left isn't there?”
― Chris Cleave, quote from Incendiary
“I'm going to write to you about the emptiness that was left when you took my boy away. I'm going to write so you can look into my empty life and see what a human boy really is from the shape of the hole he leaves behind. I want you to feel that hole in your heart and stroke it with your hands and cut your fingers on its sharp edges.”
― Chris Cleave, quote from Incendiary
“I hope this letter reaches you (Osama) anyway. I hope it finds you before the Americans do otherwise I'm going to wish I hadn't bothered aren't I?”
― Chris Cleave, quote from Incendiary
“This life is a deafening roar but listen. You could hear a pin drop.”
― Chris Cleave, quote from Incendiary
“Come to Me and we will blow the world back together WITH INCREDIBLE NOISE AND FURY.”
― Chris Cleave, quote from Incendiary
“Murder me with bombs you poor lonely sod I will only build myself again and stronger. I am too stupid to know better I am a woman built on the wreckage of myself.”
― Chris Cleave, quote from Incendiary
“It was not warm and not cold. There was no wind and the sky was very low and grey but it wasn't raining. It was like they'd completely run out of weather.”
― Chris Cleave, quote from Incendiary
“London is a city built on the wreckage of itself Osama. It's had more comebacks that The Evil Dead. It's been flattened by storms and flooded out and rotted with plague. Londoners jut took a deep breath and put the kettle on. Then the whole thing burned down. Every last stick of it. ... People thought it was the end of the world. BUt the Londoners got up the next day and the world hadn't ended so they rebuilt the city in 3 years stronger and taller.”
― Chris Cleave, quote from Incendiary
“I was hoping my life might make more sense from a great height.”
― Chris Cleave, quote from Incendiary
“You ever wonder why an East Eng girl like me hasn't got much in the way of family? Well here's the reasons Petra. World War 1. World War 2. Falklands War. Gulf War 1. Gulf War 2 and the War on Drugs. You can take your pick because I've lost whole bloody chunks of my family in all of them.”
― Chris Cleave, quote from Incendiary
“That is the nature of this madness. It fills the sky with barrage balloons and people's eyes with hate.”
― Chris Cleave, quote from Incendiary
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“Cormac heard that glorious word for the first time in the1850s, and it came to epitomize for him all of New York's rough skepticism. It had much greater weight than the word 'horseshit.' Horseshit was flaky and without substance; it dried in the sun and was blown away in a high wind. Preachers were the master of horseshit. But bullshit was heavier, filled with crude truth, a kind of black cement. The voters knew the difference and they appreciated bullshit when practiced by a master. Any politician who used God in a speech was practicing horseshit. When he talked about building schools, getting water into Chatham Square, or lighting the darkest streets, Bill Tweed was practicing bullshit. If a third of the bullshit actually came into existence, their lives were made better. Tweed, as he moved up in the system, was a master of bullshit.”
― Pete Hamill, quote from Forever
“My men think you are dead now, and won’t waste balls on you,” Jack said. “In fact I have let you live, but for one purpose only: so that you can make your way back to Paris and tell them the following: that the deed you are about to witness was done for a woman, whose name I will not say, for she knows who she is; and that it was done by ‘Half-Cocked’ Jack Shaftoe, L’Emmerdeur, the King of the Vagabonds, Ali Zaybak: Quicksilver!”
― Neal Stephenson, quote from The Confusion
“فالناس يشبهون الأنهر يجري الماء فيها جميعاً , غير أن أحدها يكون مستقيماً في مكان ما ومتعرجاً في آخر , واسعاً وضيقاً . صافي الماء وعكره , فاتراً وبارداً وهكذا شأن البشر , فهم يحملون في داخلهم بذور الفضائل والرذائل , فطوراً تتغلب هذه و طوراً تتغلب تلك”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Resurrection
“Youre gonna grow up and marry some ice cream! Haha!”
― Jeff Kinney, quote from Rodrick Rules
“parece que não vês que as palavras são rótulos que se pegam às cousas, não são as cousas, nunca saberás como são as cousas, nem sequer que nomes são na realidade os seus, porque os nomes que lhes deste não são mais do que isso, os nomes que lhes deste”
― José Saramago, quote from Death with Interruptions
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