“Darth Maultini, please.” They stopped and stared. “A what?” He shot them a suffering expression. “One ounce sweet vermouth, one ounce vodka, one ounce whiskey, two ounces pomegranate cherry, and two lemon wedges cut up and spread around the glass.”
― Jennifer Probst, quote from Searching for Perfect
“A volte la gente crede di non peritare il lieto fine.
-Sognando te-”
― Jennifer Probst, quote from Searching for Perfect
“«Ti amo, Kennedy Ashe.»
(..)
«Qui non si tratta di me, piccola. Si tratta di te. Posso inseguirti in eterno, prometterti il mondo, ma se tu non ti decidi a fare il salto, se non prendi il rischio con me, è una battaglia persa in partenza. Non è solo il tuo corpo che amo. Amo la tua mente straordinaria, amo la tua anima buona, la tua forza interiore. Amo la vita che ti sei costruita con le tue amiche, il lavoro che hai scelto. Amo tutto di te, il buono e il cattivo, le luci e le ombre, e voglio condividere ogni cosa. Ma tu devi lasciarmelo fare.»”
― Jennifer Probst, quote from Searching for Perfect
“As Thomas Paine said, ‘What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.”
― Jennifer Probst, quote from Searching for Perfect
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“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding that you've said it all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried when you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an uderstanding ear.”
― Stephen King, quote from The Body
“We want what we can't have. It's human nature.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
“Сега лежах съвсем изоставен в тази глупава ръждивочервеникава вана, стените на банята бяха облицовани с черни плочки, но ваната, сапуниерката, кранът на душа и дъската на тоалетната чиния бяха ръждивочервени. Липсваше ми гласът на Мари. Докато мислех за нея, изпитах чувството, че тя не може да чете на Цюпфнер дори и библията, без да се чувства предателка и развратница. Тя трябваше да си спомни за хотела в Дюселдорф, където ми беше чела за Соломон и Савската царица, докато заспах преуморен във ваната. Зелените килими в хотелската стая, тъмните коси на Мари, гласът ѝ, после тя ми донесе запалена цигара и аз я целунах.
Лежах покрит до шия със сапунени пяна и мислех за Мари. Тя не можеше да върши нищо с него или при него, без да си спомня за мене. В негово присъствие не можеше да завърти дори капачето на пастата за зъби. Колко често ние двамата бяхме закусвали заедно, бедно или разкошно, набързо или спокойно, прекалено рано призори или късно сутринта, с много мармалад или без никакъв мармалад. Самата представа, че тя закусваше с Цюпфнер всяка сутрин по едно и също време, а след това той тръгваше с колата си за своята католическа канцелария, ме докара почти до молитвено настроение. Молех се никога да не се стига до закуска с Цюпфнер.”
― Heinrich Böll, quote from The Clown
“The story of my life doesn’t exist. Does not exist. There’s never any center to it. No path, no line. There are great spaces where you pretend there used to be someone, but it’s not true, there was no one.”
― Marguerite Duras, quote from The Lover
“Gomst's mouth framed a 'no', but every other muscle in him said 'yes'. You'd think priests would be better liars, what with their jobs and all.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Prince of Thorns
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