Obert Skye · 407 pages
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“Desperate times call for desperate measures. That's a saying, or a bit of advice, or a catchprase, or a string of words used to confuse people less intelligent than you. In any case, it means: Life is tough, so you'd better fight hard-or something like that.”
― Obert Skye, quote from Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret
“Terry was beside himself. Not literally. This story would be that much more painful if there were two Terrys, able to stand next to each other and simultaneously curse Leven.”
― Obert Skye, quote from Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret
“What's that darkness over there?" Leven asked.
"It's not good." Clover said.
"Then what is it?"
'Bad," Clover suggested, sounding as though he wasn't all that impressed with Leven's level of knowledge.
"I understand opposites," Leven said, frustrated.”
― Obert Skye, quote from Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret
“Then, there are the places you would rather not go-a tax collectors' convention, a sewage treatment plant, or maybe the home of someone who keeps spiders as pets and insists on taking them out of their cages and making you hold them.”
― Obert Skye, quote from Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret
Obert Skye
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“Hay, efectivamente, pasiones que se encauzan mal o bien, según se quiera. Dos personas se confían a la táctica del sentimiento, hablan en vez de actuar y se baten en campo abierto en lugar de poner un cerco. Así se cansan a menudo de sí mismas al extenuar sus deseos en el vacío. Dos enamorados se dan entonces tiempo para reflexionar y juzgarse. Frecuentemente pasiones que habían entrado en campaña con las banderas desplegadas, pimpantes, con un ardor que lo arrollaba todo a su paso, acaban por volver a sus puestos sin haber logrado la victoria, avergonzadas, desarmadas y atontadas por su vano estruendo. Tales fatalidades resultan explicables en ocasiones por la timidez de la juventud y por las dilaciones de que gustan las mujeres que se inician, pues esta especie de mutuo engaño no se da ni en los fatuos duchos en la práctica, ni en las coquetas habituadas a los ardides de la pasión.”
― Honoré de Balzac, quote from Lost Illusions
“Supervisors routinely fabricated statistics on agricultural production and industrial output because they were so fearful of telling their own bosses the truth. Lies were built upon lies, all the way to the top, so it is in fact conceivable that Kim Il-sung himself didn't know when the economy crashed”
― Barbara Demick, quote from Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
“You don't live because of me. You live because you let me love you. You made the choice to breathe all on your own ... I just helped you find the strength to inhale.”
― Lisa De Jong, quote from When It Rains
“It sucked so bad she might as well put a gun to her head and pull the trigger. Except she didn’t own a gun because she didn’t like them. Besides, pulling the trigger on a gun was pretty final. She had issues with commitment and she was so freaking dead anyway, so why bother.”
― Thea Harrison, quote from Dragon Bound
“I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of compulsion to read on, then everything is probably going to be just fine.”
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