“You can’t do over what’s already been done, but you sure can undo it. Not easy, but you can undo it.”
― Madeleine Roux, quote from Sanctum
“Silence gave the shadows and the darkness power”
― Madeleine Roux, quote from Sanctum
“Sanctum, a holy or sacred place. What could be more sacred than possessing the power of your own true thoughts? Sanctum. It is both lock and key.”
― Madeleine Roux, quote from Sanctum
“Am I the only one getting a god-awful Dolores Umbridge vibe off of her?”
― Madeleine Roux, quote from Sanctum
“paths. Curiosities lurked around every corner. A man belched flames from a podium. The scent of fried cakes and popcorn hung sweet and heavy on the air, tantalizing until it became sickening. And”
― Madeleine Roux, quote from Sanctum
“Wow, did Tim Burton binge on Laffy Taffy and vomit all over this place or what?” Jordan whispered.”
― Madeleine Roux, quote from Sanctum
“Heads half-glued together, Abby and Lara had engaged in rapid-fire chitchat as they all hurried across campus.”
― Madeleine Roux, quote from Sanctum
“Почти на все женщины смотрели по-разному, но в одном они сходились: как прекрасно, когда тебя хоть иногда оставляют в покое и ты можешь не слушать этого оглушительного мужского хохота.”
― Astrid Lindgren, quote from Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
“It was almost exactly like the caves to the east where my girl cousins met their swains to canoodle.”
― Jessica Day George, quote from Dragon Slippers
“Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.”
― Doris Lessing, quote from The Golden Notebook
“...for all its apparent speed, the ship was almost perfectly silent, and he experienced an enervating, eerie feeling, as though the ancient warship, mothballed all those centuries, had somehow not yet fully woken up, and events within its sleek hull still moved to another, slower tempo, made half of dreams.”
― Iain M. Banks, quote from The Player of Games
“I realize,” said Sumner, “that the press is hardly reliable.” Lincoln turned from the window; suddenly, he grinned. “Oh, yes, they are. They lie. And then they re-lie. So they are nothing if not re-lie-able.”
― Gore Vidal, quote from Lincoln
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