“I hardly think a girl is much of a threat. I presume you searched her for weapons? But if she attempts to suffocate me with her straw mattress, I promise to call out for help.”
― Mary Hoffman, quote from Stad van maskers
“If I had known, do you think I should have let her get away with this mad plan? That I should have let her rob me of my child? No, I should have taken you myself and hidden with you in some far-off land and never seen her again rather than agree to such an unnatural scheme”
― Mary Hoffman, quote from Stad van maskers
“Dia... het is zo. Ik begrijp er niet veel van, maar ik geloof je wél. Je komt uit een grote stad hier heel ver vandaan, waar je heel erg ziek bent, en hier ben je opeens gezond en wel. Hoe bestaat dat? - Arianna”
― Mary Hoffman, quote from Stad van maskers
“Een dolk en een masker,' fluisterde Lucien. 'Over een paar maanden zul je nog gevaarlijker zijn dan je nu al bent.”
― Mary Hoffman, quote from Stad van maskers
“De duchessa is dood. - Silvia”
― Mary Hoffman, quote from Stad van maskers
“Ik heb mijn besluit genomen. - Arianna”
― Mary Hoffman, quote from Stad van maskers
Mary Hoffman
Born place: in The United Kingdom
Born date January 1, 1945
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“Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.”
― Michael Ondaatje, quote from In the Skin of a Lion
“All down the stone steps on either side were periwinkles in full flower, and she could now see what it was that had caught at her the night before and brushed, wet and scented, across her face. It was wistaria. Wistaria and sunshine . . . she remembered the advertisement. Here indeed were both in profusion. The wistaria was tumbling over itself in its excess of life, its prodigality of flowering; and where the pergola ended the sun blazed on scarlet geraniums, bushes of them, and nasturtiums in great heaps, and marigolds so brilliant that they seemed to be burning, and red and pink snapdragons, all outdoing each other in bright, fierce colour. The ground behind these flaming things dropped away in terraces to the sea, each terrace a little orchard, where among the olives grew vines on trellises, and fig-trees, and peach-trees, and cherry-trees. The cherry-trees and peach-trees were in blossom--lovely showers of white and deep rose-colour among the trembling delicacy of the olives; the fig-leaves were just big enough to smell of figs, the vine-buds were only beginning to show. And beneath these trees were groups of blue and purple irises, and bushes of lavender, and grey, sharp cactuses, and the grass was thick with dandelions and daisies, and right down at the bottom was the sea. Colour seemed flung down anyhow, anywhere; every sort of colour piled up in heaps, pouring along in rivers....”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, quote from The Enchanted April
“The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.”
― Victor Hugo, quote from The Man Who Laughs
“It's just hard to see people from your past when your present is so cataclysmically fucked.”
― Jonathan Tropper, quote from This is Where I Leave You
“If it can be controlled in thermonuclear reactions, it turns
out that the energy that can be obtained from 10 quarts of water per second is equal
to all of the electrical power generated in the United States. With 150 gallons of
running water a minute, you have enough fuel to supply all the energy which is
used in the United States today! Therefore it is up to the physicist to figure out
how to liberate us from the need for having energy. It can be done.”
― Richard Feynman, quote from The Feynman Lectures on Physics
Thief of Time
Sundays at Tiffany's
Doctor Sleep
Virals
Winter of the World
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