“I am weird, and you know what? That's OK. So are most interesting people.”
― quote from Shift
“I believe in grey...Some things aren't straightforward. Not everything is true or false, real or imaginary, black or white. It's not that simple.”
― quote from Shift
“Imitation is the highest from of flattery. Until it isn't.”
― quote from Shift
“One more piece of sky in the jigsaw puzzle of our school.”
― quote from Shift
“... it looked at me as it passed, smiling in that crazy-happy way that dogs do. And I started laughing. I mean, how can you not laugh at a dog running on the beach? But I was also kind of crying, too. Laughing and crying simultaneously hurts. It hurts and it's confusing.”
― quote from Shift
“As we stood there, chest high in water, I felt like I was in the middle of my own romance novel.”
― quote from Shift
“The ocean is not to be trusted. It's dark and cold with a treacherous current that pulls you whichever way it wants. It can drown you or it refuse to drown you.”
― quote from Shift
“She was the whisper of a shadow.”
― quote from Shift
“Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Until it isn't.”
― quote from Shift
“Las decisiones que cada uno de nosotros tomamos y las acciones que acompañan a dichas decisiones son como vibraciones en la cuerda de una guitarra”
― Dean Koontz, quote from From the Corner of His Eye
“the brilliant book Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman describes seven key abilities most beneficial for human beings: the ability to motivate ourselves, to persist against frustration, to delay gratification, to regulate moods, to hope, to empathize, and to control impulse. Many of those who commit violence never learned these skills. If you know a young person who lacks them all, that’s an important pre-incident indicator, and he needs help.”
― Gavin de Becker, quote from The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
“Es extremadamente listo, considerando lo estúpido que es.”
― Frederik Pohl, quote from Gateway
“Ve yine can sıkıntısı bastırıyor; can sıkıntısının, ozanın ve öğretmenin baskısı altında gerçeklik ağırdan ağıra bir ülkü dünyasına dönüyor ki ver artık hayali, verdikçe ver – ve artık neyin hakiki, neyin genel anlamda hiç var olmadığını, gerçeğin nerede, kuruntunun nerede olduğunu, ne hissedildiğini, neyin hissedilmediğini, doğallık nerede, yapmacılık nerede kimse bilmiyor; olması gerekeni oynuyor, kaçınılmaz olanla karışıyor ve biri diğerini saf dışı bırakıyor, biri diğerinin her türlü varoluş hakkını elinden alıyor oy, gerçek dışılığın büyük okulu oy! Dolayısıyla ben de tastamam beş saat boyunca kendi ülkümü hayal edip durdum; boşlukta suratım bir balon gibi büyüdü, hiç engelle karşılaşmadan – çünkü kurgusal dünyada, gerçekdışı dünyada onu normale döndürecek hiçbir şey yoktu.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, quote from Ferdydurke
“Aloof on her mountain top she considered the innumerable activities of men. She had a wonderful sense of freedom from all earthly ties, and it was such an ecstasy that nothing in comparison with it had any value. She felt like a spirit in heaven.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, quote from Theatre
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