“The mind remembers what the soul can bear.”
― Rhidian Brook, quote from The Aftermath
“Rachael could find no solace in other people's tales of woe. Pain was uniquely one's own, and undiminished by a democracy of suffering.”
― Rhidian Brook, quote from The Aftermath
“It was somehow easier to love a person who wasn't there.”
― Rhidian Brook, quote from The Aftermath
“We will continue to march, even if everything shatters, because today Germany hears us, and tomorrow, the whole world. And because of the Great War, the world lies in ruins, but devil may care, we build it up again.”
― Rhidian Brook, quote from The Aftermath
“Lewis could feel something swelling inside him, at his sinuses and in his chest. He had worked hard to keep this ghost at bay, but now it was pressing in, coming to claim its dues. The tears were coming, and he had to swallow to hold them. He stood up.”
― Rhidian Brook, quote from The Aftermath
“Pain was uniquely one's own, and undiminished by a democracy of suffering.”
― Rhidian Brook, quote from The Aftermath
“On the other side, apartment blocks—intact except for the fronts, which had been completely blown off, revealing the rooms and furniture within—stood like giant doll’s houses.”
― Rhidian Brook, quote from The Aftermath
“We fucked a flame into being.”
― D.H. Lawrence, quote from Lady Chatterley's Lover
“Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Much Ado About Nothing
“Well, that's certainly... adequate," I told him, burying my face in his chest. I knew immediately I'd picked the wrong word.
"Adequate?" He took my hand, placed it on the part in question. It immediately began to stir. He moved my hand on it, and I obligingly circled it with my fingers. "This is adequate?"
"Maybe I should have said it's a gracious plenty?"
"A gracious plenty. I like that," he said.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Dead to the World
“Hmm?' I looked away, flustered automatically using irritation to cover my discomfort up. 'What does 'hmm' have to do with anything? Could you ever use more that five words? All this grunting and minced words make you come across-- primal.'
His smile tipped higher. 'Primal.'
'You're impossible.'
'Me Jev, you Nora.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, quote from Silence
“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”
― Hermann Hesse, quote from Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
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