“To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from Sign of the Unicorn
“While sex heads a great number of lists, we all have other things we like to do in between.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from Sign of the Unicorn
“Yes,” he said. “But I wonder . . . I’ve a peculiar feeling that I may never see you again. It is as if I were one of those minor characters in a melodrama who gets shuffled offstage without ever learning how things turn out.”
“I can appreciate the feeling,” I said. “My own role sometimes makes me want to strangle the author. But look at it this way: inside stories seldom live up to one’s expectations. Usually they are grubby little things, reducing down to the basest of motives when all is known. Conjectures and illusions are often the better possessions.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from Sign of the Unicorn
“Before you are fully aware of anything else, you are aware whether you are awakening in your own bed.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from Sign of the Unicorn
“things sort of equal to equal things sort of being equal to each other, it didn’t much seem to matter.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from Sign of the Unicorn
“От важных дел либо очень скоро в тоску впдаешь, либо наталкиваешься на уйму трудностей - всё зависит от того, какую долю ответственности на себя взвалишь.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from Sign of the Unicorn
“Whenever people in that part of the world asked Patterson about the wonders of America, the possibilities and the hope of America, Patterson would say that it was a good and fine place but all the Americans were running it into the ground and that it would be a far better place if it had no Americans.”
― Edward P. Jones, quote from The Known World
“Quite simply the book and I were meant to be together.”
― Kate Morton, quote from The Distant Hours
“The perfection of her success, decidedly, was like some strange shore to which she had been noiselessly ferried and where, with a start, she found herself quaking at the thought that the boat might have put off again and left her. The”
― Henry James, quote from The Golden Bowl
“I felt sick. Buying Kisten’s and my safety from Piscary was so wrong. But it was either that or deal with a demon, and I’d rather keep my soul clean and let my morals get dingy.”
― Kim Harrison, quote from For a Few Demons More
“أخاف أن أحبك، فأفقدك ثم أتألم
وأخاف أيضا أن لا أحبك.. فتضيع فرصة الحب فأندم!
أعيش معك حالة لا توازن.. منذ عرفتك حياتي تسير بانتظام
فيما -قلبي- تسوده الفوضى
منذ عرفتك أحس أنني معجبة بك الى آخر حدود الإعجاب
فيك أشياء أحتاجها في هذا الزمن، وجدت فيك ماكان ينقصني ويُكمل بهاء روحي وصفاء عالمي ..
لكنني أخشى من النهايات دوماً! فأنا امرأة تعودت دائماً أن تفقد أي شيء تحبه
نحن عادة نستطيع أن نكبح جماح العاطفة في البدء، لكننا نعجز عنه في النهاية
وهذا مايجعلني أخاف كثيراً كثيراً
فعلمني كيف أحبك بلا ألم / وكيف لا أحبك بلا ندم .. !”
― Ahlam Mosteghanemi, quote from The Bridges of Constantine
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