“Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos.”
The skin of this world,” he said quietly.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Skin
“It was there, beyond the skin of this world, that a cure of ugliness could be found.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Skin
“Cause I don't think we ever really get over our childhood. It's always there, waiting.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Skin
“What we see may deceive us - the skin may be deceptive - but there has to be one truth, right? It can't all just be a jumble of perceptions. So what really exists out there, beyond what we can see? We're so dependent on the surfaces of what we see. But if we could see past the skin of this world...”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Skin
“...beauty was found beyond the surface. It was there, beyond the skin of this world, that a cure of ugliness could be could.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Skin
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“He drove into the spewing smoke of acres of burning truck tires and the planes descended and the transit cranes stood in rows at the marine terminal and he saw billboards for Hertz and Avis and Chevy Blazer, for Marlboro, Continental and Goodyear, and he realized that all the things around him, the planes taking off and landing, the streaking cars, the tires on the cars, the cigarettes that the drivers of the cars were dousing in their ashtrays--all these were on the billboards around him, systematically linked in some self-referring relationship that had a kind of neurotic tightness, an inescapability, as if the billboards were generating reality...”
― Don DeLillo, quote from Underworld
“I'm tipsy." I corrected, "and it's my birthday and I want to dance. Come one, Linc, it won't kill you.”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Embrace
“maria puder son birkaç dakika zarfında biraz sükunetini kaybetmişe benziyordu. bunu tespit edince memnun oldum: onun hiç sarsılmadan gittiğini görmek, beni herhalde pek üzecekti. mütemadiyen elimi tutup bırakıyor:
"ne manasız şey?.. ne diye gidiyorsun sanki?" diye söyleniyordu.
"asıl sen gidiyorsun , ben daha burdayım!" dedim.
bu sözümü fark etmemiş göründü. kolumdan tuttu.
"raif... şimdi ben gidiyorum!" dedi.
"evet... biliyorum!"
trenin hareket saati gelmişti. bir memur vagon kapısını örtüyordu. maria puder merdiven basamağına atladı, sonra bana eğilerek, yavaş bir sesle, fakat tane tane:
"şimdi ben gidiyorum. fakat ne zaman çağırsan gelirim..." dedi.
evvela ne demek istediğini anlamadım. o da bir an durdu ve ilave etti:
"nereye çağırsan gelirim!”
― Sabahattin Ali, quote from Kürk Mantolu Madonna
“Saber lo que uno de verdad desea y tener la confianza para decirlo son dos de las cosas más difíciles de lograr en la vida”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Dreamless
“Emilio appeared with wine before Cal could say anything, and Min beamed at him, grateful for the rescue. "Emilio, my darling. I forgot to mention cake boxes. Two hundred cake boxes."
"Already on it," Emilio said. "Nonna said you'd need them. She said to get four-inch-square boxes for three-inch-square cakes."
"I'm getting the boxes," Min said, nodding. "Sure. Great. Fine. Your grandmother is an angel and you are my hero. And of course, a genius with food."
"And you are my favorite customer." Emilio kissed her cheek and disappeared back into the kitchen.
"I love him," she told Cal.
"I noticed," Cal said. "Been seeing him behind my back, have you?"
"Yes," Min said. "We've been having conversations about cake."
"Whoa," Cal said. "For you, that's talking dirty.”
― Jennifer Crusie, quote from Bet Me
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