“It was odd how you could love something so much, but forget about it when it wasn’t right under your nose.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Kisscut
“Yeah?” “I miss the way you taste.” She tried to sound bored. “It’s still Colgate.” “That’s not the taste I was talking about.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Kisscut
“This sheriff goes into a saloon and says, “I’m lookin’ for a cowboy wearing a brown paper vest and brown paper pants.’ He waited a beat, making sure Sara was listening. ‘The bartender says, “What’s he wanted for?” And the sheriff says, “Rustling.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Kisscut
“Okay. Good.’ He fumbled for his keys and held them out to her, but she did not take”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Kisscut
“As if they could understand what she had been through. As if they knew what it was like to be strong and invincible one day and completely powerless the next.”
― Karin Slaughter, quote from Kisscut
“Hai mai pensato di andare via e non tornare mai più? Scappare e far perdere ogni tua traccia, per andare in un posto lontano e ricominiciare a vivere, vivere una vita nuova, solo tua, vivere davvero. Ci hai mai pensato?”
― Luigi Pirandello, quote from The Late Mattia Pascal
“I propose that if you want a simple step to a higher form of life, as distant from the animal as you can get, then you may have to denarrate, that is, shut down the television set, minimize time spent reading newspapers, ignore the blogs. Train your reasoning abilities to control your decisions; nudge System 1 (the heuristic or experiential system) out of the important ones. Train yourself to spot the difference between the sensational and the empirical. This insulation from the toxicity of the world will have an additional benefit: it will improve your well-being.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, quote from The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
“Babe, you’ve destroyed a car, burned down two buildings, stapled a guy’s nuts, and you have sixteen stitches in your leg. Take a night off. Have a glass of wine, watch some television, and go to bed early.”
― Janet Evanovich, quote from Lean Mean Thirteen
“Corset,’ Mrs. Erskine? I don’t understand.” Because she was trussed up in one herself, she couldn’t comprehend how Ariah had escaped hers.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, quote from The Falls
“Dear Torina, I can't face the idea of sacrificing you to this danger. You must stay alive." He caressed her cheek. "Hear me," he went on. "Even if you feel only friendship, Torina, I've loved you since the day you helped me to my feet. I tried so hard to stop. Then I thought you were dead, and my life hurt every day.”
― Victoria Hanley, quote from The Seer and the Sword
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