“Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from Memories of Midnight
“Surely you’ve been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from Memories of Midnight
“He believed nothing he was told and trusted no one.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from Memories of Midnight
“To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from Memories of Midnight
“Constantin Demiris had arranged with the authorities for her body to be buried on the grounds of the cemetery on Psara, his private island in the Aegean. Everyone had remarked on what a beautiful, sentimental gesture it was. In fact, Demiris had arranged for the burial plot to be there so that he could have the exquisite pleasure of walking over the bitch's grave.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from Memories of Midnight
“Not now.It's too late.It was always too late.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from Memories of Midnight
“The voices would not stop. They were a torment, Her past became a kaleidoscope of shifting images that kept racing through her mind.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from Memories of Midnight
“Inspector Tinou sat silent. The Greek police department did not welcome interference from other countries in their affairs. Particularly Americans. They are always too-sou, so sure of themselves.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from Memories of Midnight
“Não me cantem canções da luz do dia / Pois o sol é o inimigo dos amantes / Cantem das sombras e da escuridão / E das lembranças da meia-noite.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from Memories of Midnight
“It will be a honeymoon,Demiris told her.She got the honeymoon but not the wedding.”
― Sidney Sheldon, quote from Memories of Midnight
“The great radio telescopes of the world are constructed in remote locations for the same reason Paul Gauguin sailed to Tahiti: For them to work well they must be far from civilization.”
― Carl Sagan, quote from Contact
“Cal stepped forward, hopefully to come to my rescue.
"I could toss her off the pier, Ms. Vanderlyden."
Or not.”
― Rachel Hawkins, quote from Demonglass
“I want you to watch. And tomorrow when you're sore, I want you to remember who did it to you.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Beautiful Bastard
“I told them this novel was an American classic, in many ways the quintessential American novel. There were other contenders: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Moby-Dick, The Scarlet Letter. Some cite its subject matter, the American Dream, to justify this distinction. We in ancient countries have our past--we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future.”
― Azar Nafisi, quote from Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
“The word of God is my vow.”
― Pittacus Lore, quote from The Power of Six
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