“Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.”
“Surely you’ve been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is.”
“He believed nothing he was told and trusted no one.”
“To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance.”
“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.”
“Not now.It's too late.It was always too late.”
“The voices would not stop. They were a torment, Her past became a kaleidoscope of shifting images that kept racing through her mind.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It will be a honeymoon,Demiris told her.She got the honeymoon but not the wedding.”
“This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.”
“The song is over. But the melody lingers on.”
“She'd never seen a monster like that before, had never heard of one in all the Lore. When she grappled with the question of what it was, her sharply honed scientifical mind deduced one answer: manbearpig.”
“She preferred silence. So I do not know her and yet I know her. She was . . . (He touches the coffin) . . . not a person but a whole kind of person, the ones who crossed the ocean, who brought with us to America the villages of Russia and Lithuania—and how we struggled, and how we fought, for the family, for the Jewish home, so that you would not grow up here, in this strange place, in the melting pot where nothing melted.”
“If I were a Jedi, I had definitely turned to the dark side of the Force.”
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