“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
“This was just the beginning of our healing. Of being forgiven. I knew I would struggle with it at times, and feel like I was fighting for every breath. I just had to remember, there was always a choice. And I chose to live. I chose to love. I chose to breathe.”
― Rebecca Donovan, quote from Out of Breath
“No, I thought, growing more rebellious, life has its own laws and it is for me to defend myself against whatever comes along, without going snivelling to God about sin, my own or other people's. How would it profit a man if he got into a tight place, to call he people who put him there miserable sinners? Or himself a miserable sinner? I disliked the levelling aspect of this sinnerdom, it was like a cricket match played in a drizzle, where everybody had an excuse - and what a dull excuse! - for playing badly. Life was meant to test a man, bring out his courage, initiative, resource; and I longed, I thought, to be tested: I didn't want to fall on my knees and call myself a miserable sinner.
But the idea of goodness did attract me, for I did not regard it as the opposite of sin. I saw it as something bright and positive and sustaining, like the sunshine, something to be adored, but from afar.”
― L.P. Hartley, quote from The Go-Between
“... the best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.”
― José Saramago, quote from The Cave
“Ruining is a gift .. it's the way of changing.”
― Erin Gruwell, quote from The Freedom Writers Diary
“Distorted, clawed hands hung the bag of precious herbs around the thick, muscular neck of the wolf, and then the animal took off in a dead run, racing the climbing sun as it burned away the thick cloud covering. Fur began to smoke, and blisters rose beneath the thick pelt.
Thunder cracked unexpectedly. Thick black clouds, heavy with rain, blew across the sky, providing Mikhail with dense cover from the sun. The storm rolled in over the forest fast, with wild winds kicking up leaves and swaying branches. A bolt of lightning sizzled across the sky in a fiery whip of dancing light. The sky darkened to an ominous cauldron of boiling clouds. Mikhail bounded into the cave and raced along the narrow maze of passages toward the main chamber, shape-shifting as he ran.
Gregori’s cool silver gaze slid over him as Mikhail relinquished the herbs. “It is a wonder you have been able to tie your shoes without me all of these centuries.”
Mikhail sank down beside his brother, one hand over his burning eyes. “It is more of a wonder you have stayed alive with your ostentatious displays. Remind me to remove my impressionable brother from your disrespectful presence before your winning ways rub off on him.”
― Christine Feehan, quote from Dark Prince
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