“Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Peaches for Father Francis
“More. Oh that word. That deceptive word. That eater of lives; that malcontent.”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Peaches for Father Francis
“All those moments, those memories. Everything that we are, compressed in just two or three kilos of paper — the weight of a human heart.”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Peaches for Father Francis
“But if you could travel back through Time, and find yourself as you used to be, wouldn't you try, just once at least, to give her some kind of warning? Wouldn't you want to make things right?”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Peaches for Father Francis
“There's something very comforting about the ritual of jam-making. It speaks of cellars filled with preserves; of neat rows of jars on pantry shelves. It speaks of winter mornings and bowls of chocolat au lait, with thick slices of good fresh bread and last year's peach jam, like a promise of sunshine at the darkest point of the year. It speaks of four stone walls, a roof, and of seasons that turn in the same place, in the same way, year after year, with sweet familiarity. It is the taste of home.”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Peaches for Father Francis
“Those people who say that words have no power know nothing of the nature of words. Words, well placed, can end a regime; can turn affection to hatred; can start a religion or even a war. Words are the shepherds of lies; they lead the best of us to the slaughter.”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Peaches for Father Francis
“Sometimes walking away is best. I should know. It's my specialty.”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Peaches for Father Francis
“-Nem tudod elhallgattatni a kutyát?
A fiú szánakozva nézett rá.
-Nem igazán. - felelte. - Vlad hisz a szólásszabadságban.”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Peaches for Father Francis
“I have never belonged to a tribe. It gives me a different perspective. Perhaps if I did, I too would feel ill at ease in Les Marauds. But I have always been different. Perhaps that's why I find it easier to cross the narrow boundaries between one tribe and the next. To belong so often means to exclude; to think in terms of us and them - to little words that, juxtaposed, so often lead to conflict.”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Peaches for Father Francis
“Anos de viagens com a minha mãe ensinaram-se que a comida é o passaporte universal. Quaisquer que sejam as barreiras de lingua, cultura ou geografia, a comida atravessa todas as fronteiras.”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Peaches for Father Francis
“Azok, akik szerint a szavaknak nincs hatalmuk, nincsenek tisztában a szavak természetével. A jól irányzott szavak véget vethetnek egy uralkodó rendszernek, vallást alapíthatnak vagy háborút indíthatnak. A szavak a hazugságok pásztorai, sorainkból a legjobbakat máglyára küldhetik.”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Peaches for Father Francis
“Come to me in love, Love. Come to me in love.”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Peaches for Father Francis
“Io cucino quando sono irrequieta; mi piacciono le ricette semplici, la preparazione degli ingredienti, il sapere che, se seguo le regole, il piatto non deluderà mai. Se solo la gente fosse così. Se solo il cuore fosse così semplice.”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Peaches for Father Francis
“The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Peaches for Father Francis
“my mother have taught me that food is a universal passport. Whatever the constraints of language, culture or geography, food crosses over all boundaries. To offer food is to extend the hand of friendship; to accept is to be accepted into the most closed of communities. I”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Peaches for Father Francis
“Egyenessége ellenére Roux-ban van valami sértődöttség. Mint egy vadon élő állat, akit meg lehet ugyan szelidíteni, de sosem felejti el a kegyetlenséget, és egyszerre tud szenvedélyesen hűséges és meg nem bocsátó lenni. Gyanítom, hogy Reynaud-t illetően sosem lesz más a véleménye, ami meg a falut illeti, csak megvetést érez Lansquenet szelíd kis nyulacskái iránt, akik oly csendesen éldegélnek a Tannes partján, sosem mernek a legközelebbi hegynél messzebbre tekinteni, ha meglegyinti őket a legcsekélyebb változás szellője, vagy ha idegen érkezik, összerázkódnak...”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Peaches for Father Francis
“I’ve always recognized that look – that look of sanctified contempt adopted by the righteous.”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Peaches for Father Francis
“But I have always been different. Perhaps that’s why I find it easier to cross the narrow boundaries between one tribe and the next. To belong so often means to exclude; to think in terms of us and them – two little words that, juxtaposed, so often lead to conflict.”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Peaches for Father Francis
“To belong so often means to exclude; to think in terms of us and them - two little words that, juxtaposed, so often lead to conflict." - Monsieur Le Curé.”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Peaches for Father Francis
“we have the uncanny knack of focusing on difference; as if excluding others could make our sense of identity stronger. And yet, in all my travels, I have found that people are mostly the same everywhere.”
― Joanne Harris, quote from Peaches for Father Francis
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“This child could not command a pet dove."
Harsh but true, lol!”
― Philippa Gregory, quote from The Boleyn Inheritance
“Wiktor almost smiled. His suspicions were”
― Louise Murphy, quote from The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
“Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.”
― Gore Vidal, quote from Julian
“the actress playing Celia could ask why god had ever put her on earth.
and then the voice from the back of the theater could rumble: "to reproduce. nothing else really interests me. all the rest is frippery.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, quote from Deadeye Dick
“Do you ever think when you look at someone, when to you listen to someone, does that person really have a life?" Abdul was asking the boy who was not listening. "Like that woman who just went to hang herself, or her husband, who probably beat her before she did this? I wonder what kind of life is that," Abdul went on. "I go through tensions just to see it. But it is a life. Even the person who lives like a dog still has a kind of life. Once when my mother was beating me, and that thought came to me. I said, 'If what is happening now, you beating me, is to keep happening for the rest of my life, it would be a bad life, but it would be a life, too.' And my mother was so shocked when I said that. She said, "Don't confuse yourself by thinking about such terrible lives.'" Sunil though that he, too, had a life. A bad life, certainly-the kind that could be ended as Kalu's had been and then forgotten, because it made no difference to the people who lived in the overcity. But something he'd come to realize on the roof, leaning out, thinking about what would happen if he leaned to far, was that a boy's life could still matter to himself.”
― Katherine Boo, quote from Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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