“Acım tıpkı organlarımı kemiren bir yaratık gibi hala canlı.Ölmeyecek.Ölmeyi reddediyor.Onu oraya sen koydun, sen ektin, embriyoya onca yılın besinini verdin.Ve sonra yürüyüp gittin.
Bana iyilik yaptığını söyledin.Şimdi ayrılmak daha iyi, eğer bu iş uzarsa sadece daha fazla acı verecek, dedin.
Acı çekmenin ne olduğunu bilmiyorsun…”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from Presumed Guilty
“Seni ne için affedeceğim? Bana masumiyetin gerçek anlamını gösterdiğin için mi? İnanmaya programlandığım her kibirli nosyonu sorgulamama sebep olduğun için mi? Salak olduğumu fark etmemi sağladığın için mi?
Sana aşık olmama sebep olduğun için mi?”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from Presumed Guilty
“bazen," dedi, "kalbim duruyor sanki.bazen kalbimin attığını hiç ama hiç hissetmiyorum.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from Presumed Guilty
“Mutlu sonlar kendiliğinden gelmez.Bazen bunun için çaba harcamak gerekir.”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from Presumed Guilty
“Beni burada seni bekler halde bırakmışken, beni sevdiğini nasıl söyleyebilirsin?”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from Presumed Guilty
“night.” “Just some sore muscles. That’s all.” She shrugged,”
― Tess Gerritsen, quote from Presumed Guilty
Tess Gerritsen
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“There are people, she once wrote, who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not all crawl, once.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, quote from Purple Hibiscus
“But the real fierceness of desire, the real heat of a passion long continued and withering up the soul of a man, is the craving for identity with the woman that he loves. He desires to see with the same eyes, to touch with the same sense of touch, to hear with the same ears, to lose his identity, to be enveloped, to be supported. For, whatever may be said of the relation of the sexes, there is no man who loves a woman that does not desire to come to her for the renewal of his courage, for the cutting asunder of his difficulties. And that will be the mainspring of his desire for her. We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.”
― Ford Madox Ford, quote from The Good Soldier
“Listen...You could spend a lifetime trying to understand the works of evil men. Their joys are not ours. They love to inflict pain, create suffering, cause harm and death. It empowers them, for beneath the skin they are empty and worthless.”
― David Gemmell, quote from Lord of the Silver Bow
“Mooch? What does that word mean?”
Ellie smiled. “It’s a term when you live with someone and take something freely from the person who has to work for it. It’s not a good thing. It’s hard to explain that one. I guess I could describe it as I’m a burden to him.”
“How? He already had a room you could have.”
Ellie struggled with her thoughts. Some words were hard to explain. “Yes. He did but usually you don’t live with someone unless you are a couple. Then it is acceptable if you share food and a home. If you aren’t, then both parties are supposed to work, similar to a partnership, be equal. I am not his girlfriend or his partner. He provides a home and food for me while I give him nothing in return. I’m a mooch.”
“I think I understand.” Breeze smiled. “And you are not a mooch. He doesn’t know what one is so therefore you can’t be what he doesn’t know exists.”
― Laurann Dohner, quote from Fury
“…Шефът обаче никога не ми прости, че получих онзи орден и лентата през гърдите, и гледаше през мен, сякаш ме нямаше, въпреки че аз си докарвах такива пари, че с тях покривах вече целия под, всеки трети месец отнасях цял под, застлан със стотачки крони, в заложната банка, защото си бях наумил, че ще стана милионер, че ще бъда равен с всички, и че после ще наема или ще си купя малък хотел, малко къщенце някъде в Чешкия рай, че ще се оженя, ще си намеря богата булка и нейните и моите пари заедно ще ме направят уважаван мъж, като всички останали хотелиери, и че дори ако не ме признават като човек ще бъдат длъжни да ме признаят като милионер, собственик на хотел и имоти, че ще им е съдено да се съобразяват с мен…”
― Bohumil Hrabal, quote from I Served the King of England
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