“Aren’t you scared of him?’ Amy asked, slumping down and trying to make herself inconspicuous. ‘He always looks so fierce. Don’t you remember that time he nearly caught us on his land? I was sure he’d give us a beating if he’d got hold of us.’ ‘Humph! My pa would have had something to say to him if he had.’ ‘That wouldn’t have been much comfort.’ ‘Yes, it would. Anyway, who’d be scared of him—sour old man like that.’ Lizzie dismissed Charlie Stewart with a wave of her hand.”
― Shayne Parkinson, quote from Sentence of Marriage
“he gets all this advice. Anyway, I don’t think Frank”
― Shayne Parkinson, quote from Sentence of Marriage
“Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves,”
― Shayne Parkinson, quote from Sentence of Marriage
“me, girl.’ He stared closely at”
― Shayne Parkinson, quote from Sentence of Marriage
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“Her clarity gave her purpose and her purpose gave her clarity.”
― Jonathan Stroud, quote from The Ring of Solomon
“He looked so pained that I dreamed of taking his hands and making him dance”
― Andrea Levy, quote from Small Island
“On the dashboard of our family car is a shallow indentation about the size of a paperback book. If you are looking for somewhere to put your sunglasses or spare change, it is the obvious place, and it works extremely well, I must say, so long as the car is not actually moving. However, as soon as you put the car in motion ... everything slides off ... It can hold nothing that has not been nailed to it. So I ask you: what then is it for?”
― Bill Bryson, quote from I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
“Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, quote from Red Mars
“الصعوبة الخاصة في ادراك الى اي مدى لا تكون فيه رغباتنا -وافكارنا ومشاعرنا بالمثل- حقا رغباتنا بل وُضعت فينا من الخارج مرتبطة ارتباطا وثيقا بمشكلة السلطة و الحرية. في سيرورة التاريخ الحديث حلت محل سلطة الكنيسة سلطة الدولة وحلت محل سلطة الدولة سلطة الضمير وفي حقبتنا الراهنة حلت محل سلطة الضمير السلطة المجهولة للحس المشترك العام والرأي العام كأدوات للتطابق. ولاننا قد حررنا انفسنا من الاشكال الصريحة القديمة للسلطة فاننا لا نتبين اننا اصبحنا فريسة نوع جديد للسلطة. لقد اصبحنا آلات آلية نعيش في ظل وهم الافراد ذوي الارادة الذاتية. هذا الوهم يساعد الفرد على ان يظل غير مدرك لعدم زعزعته, ولكن هذا هو كل العون الذي يستطبع وهم ان يمنحه. ونفس الفرد ضعيفة اساسا, حتى انه يشعر بالعجز والزعزعة الشديدية. انه يعيش في عالم فقد فيه التعلق الاصيل به والذي فيه قد اصبح كل شيء وكل شيء مصطبغا بصبغة الاداة التي تؤدي عملها بلا تفكير حيث اصبح جزءا من آلة بنتها يداه. انه يفكر ويشعر ويريد ما يعتقد انه مفروض فيه ان يفكر فيه ويشعر به ويريده, وفي هذه العملية ذاتها يفقد نفسه التي عليها يجب ان ينبني كل أمان أصيل لفرد حر.”
― Erich Fromm, quote from Escape from Freedom
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