“In the darkness of your thoughts I would like to be a light.”
― Zoran Drvenkar, quote from Sorry
“In the winter you could see them sitting on the benches by the war memorial. The cold couldn't touch them in those days. They drank mulled wine from thermos flasks and smoked their cigarettes hastily, as if they might warm them up. Tamara doesn't know when the cold took hold of them. They feel it much more quickly now, the whine more, and if anyone asks them why, they reply that the world is getting colder and colder. They could also answer that they'd got older, but that would be too honest, you don't say that until you're forty and you can look back. In your late twenties you go through your very private climate disaster and hope for better times.”
― Zoran Drvenkar, quote from Sorry
“Pienso que la iglesia va a excomulgarnos. Repartimos la absolución y llevamos la luz a algunas almas oscuras.
-Y somos más caros.
-Cierto, somos más caros, pero tampoco nadie tiene que ponerse de rodillas a la hora de acostarse y darnos las gracias.”
― Zoran Drvenkar, quote from Sorry
“In the darkness of your thoughts, I would like to be a light...”
― Zoran Drvenkar, quote from Sorry
“Estar enamorada de alguien y amar a alguien son para ella dos estaciones de tren distintas.”
― Zoran Drvenkar, quote from Sorry
“En la oscuridad de tus pensamientos quisiera ser una luz.”
― Zoran Drvenkar, quote from Sorry
“Los olores, la luz el espacio y todas las huellas que las personas han ido dejando en un sitio a lo largo de los años, el sitio en el que ellos crecieron. En cada visita, Wolf busca conscientemente esas huellas. Él lo llama nostalgia, Kris lo llama frustración.”
― Zoran Drvenkar, quote from Sorry
“Ninguna persona debería separarse de otra cuando el sol brilla”
― Zoran Drvenkar, quote from Sorry
“Historia y raíces no son una disculpa para el presente”
― Zoran Drvenkar, quote from Sorry
“Todos vivimos con culpas... nos torturamos con ellas, cada cual como puede...”
― Zoran Drvenkar, quote from Sorry
“Amor y tiempo son las únicas dos cosas en el mundo que no se pueden comprar, sólo gastar”
― Gary Jennings, quote from Aztec
“When the Elemental Cross locks the Rift, it will restore the balance of nature, returning all creatures to their true essence."
Shay Frowned. "What does that mean?"
I stared at Anika, stunned as the truth settled into my bones. "It means we'll be wolves.”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Bloodrose
“When one has apparently made up one’s mind to spend the evening at home and has donned one’s house-jacket and sat down at the lamplit table after supper and do the particular job or play the particular game on completion of which one is in the habit of going to bed, when the weather out is so unpleasant as to make staying in the obvious choice, when one has been sitting quietly at the table for so long already that one’s leaving must inevitably provoke general astonishment, when the stairwell is in any case in darkness and the street door locked, and when in spite of all this one stands up, suddenly ill at ease, changes one’s coat, reappears immediately in street clothes, announces that one has to go out and after a brief farewell does so, feeling that one has left behind one a degree of irritation commensurate with the abruptness with which one slammed the apartment door, when one then finds oneself in the street possessed of limbs that respond to the quite unexpected freedom one has procured for them with out-of-the-ordinary agility, when in the wake of this one decision one feels capable, deep down, of taking any decision, when one realizes with a greater sense of significance than usual that one has, after all, more ability than one has need easily to effect and endure the most rapid change, and when in this frame of mind one walks the long city streets—then for that evening one has stepped completely outside one’s family, which veers into inessentiality, while one’s own person, rock solid, dark with definition, thighs thrusting rhythmically, assumes it true form.
The whole experience is enhanced when at that late hour one looks up a friend to see how he is.”
― Franz Kafka, quote from The Complete Stories
“You do not respond to an attempt on your life with a slap on the hand. Or a joke.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Exiled Queen
“Gus called Felix’s name one last time, as though saying his name would snap him out of it, would miraculously bring Felix back… But Felix was no longer Felix. He was a vampire motherfucker.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Strain
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