“There are no coincidences. And everything means something.”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Sweep: Volume 1
“Better stupid and safe that smart and dead.”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Sweep: Volume 1
“I'd once read somewhere that is takes about half as long to recover from a deep relationship as the relationship lasted.”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Sweep: Volume 1
“Robbie turned to the house again. "Got a flashlight?"
"Of course not." I smirked. "That would make me too well prepared, wouldn't it?”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Sweep: Volume 1
“Stay here!" he commanded me, then he raced off after Cal.
I stopped for just a moment. Then I ran after them.”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Sweep: Volume 1
“What would it be like to care so little about what other people thought of you?”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Sweep: Volume 1
“Years from now I'll look back and remember today as the day I met him. I'll look back and remember the exact moment my life began to include him. I will remember it forever.”
― Cate Tiernan, quote from Sweep: Volume 1
Cate Tiernan
Born place: in New Orleans, The United States
Born date July 24, 1961
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“Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.”
― Jacqueline Susann, quote from Valley of the Dolls
“This is the kind of China you Americans always see in the movies - the poor countryside, people wearing big hats to protect themselves from the sun. No, I never wore a hat like that! I was from Shanghai. That's like thinking someone from San Francisco wears a cowboy hat and rides a horse. Ridiculous!”
― Amy Tan, quote from The Kitchen God's Wife
“Helmer: To desert your home, your husband and your children! And you don‘t consider what people will say!
Nora: I cannot consider that at all. I only know that it is necessary
for me.
Helmer: It‘s shocking. This is how you would neglect your most sacred duties.
Nora: What do you consider my most sacred duties?
Helmer: Do I need to tell you that? Are they not your duties to your husband and your children?
Nora: I have other duties just as sacred.
Helmer: That you have not. What duties could those be?
Nora: Duties to myself.
Helmer: Before all else, you are a wife and mother.
Nora: I don‘t believe that any longer. I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are — or, at all events, that I must try and become one. I know quite well, Torvald, that most people would think you right, and that views of that kind are to be found in books; but I can no longer content myself with what most people say, or with what is found in books. I must think over things for myself and get to understand them.”
― Henrik Ibsen, quote from A Doll's House
“Пытаясь предусмотреть некоторые трудности будущих переводчиков, я, слово за словом, прошелся по книге с красной ручкой и отметил все каламбуры, и акростихи, все словесные перестановки, и переклички далеких отрывков текста: я объяснил трудноуловимые двойные (или тройные, или четверные, или пятерные) значения и указал отрывки, в которых форма отражает содержание; отметил те места книги, в которых сами особенности типографского набора передают важную информацию, посоветовал, какие затруднительные пассажи могут быть облегчены в переводе, а какие необходимо сохранить, и так далее. С этой кропотливой работой я провозился целый год, но делал ее с любовью; так или иначе, она была необходима, чтобы предотвратить катастрофу."
Праздничное предисловие автора к русскому изданию книги «Гёдель, Эшер, Бах»”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, quote from Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
“Why can’t you place a blessing like that on us?” I asked. “It only works on wild animals.” “So it would only affect Percy,” Annabeth reasoned. “Hey!” I protested. “Kidding,” she said.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from Percy Jackson and the Olympians
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