“That's how birthdays were in our house. All hateful charades of pretty clothes, expensive presents, and ugly words . . .”
― Debbie Howells, quote from The Bones of You
“I discover, too, that grief is different to different people. Comes in many guises. In shocked silences and closed doors around our village, as people try to shut it out. That a blank face or fleeting smile can hide the worst, most private kind of agony.”
― Debbie Howells, quote from The Bones of You
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“Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.”
― Herman Melville, quote from Bartleby the Scrivener
“Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.”
― Irving Stone, quote from Lust for Life
“Darling, everyone is beautiful in her own
way, and I am a fairy.”
― Gail Carson Levine, quote from Fairest
“So that's what it is!" he suddenly exclaimed aloud. "What joy!”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from The Death of Ivan Ilych
“Il fatto è che nella vita reale, quando commetti una sciocchezza, di solito la paghi. Nei libri, gli eroi possono fare tutti gli errori che vogliono. Qualunque cosa facciano, va a finire bene. I cattivi vengono sconfitti, i problemi si sistemano e tutto finisce in gloria. Nella vita reale [...] se attraversi una strada trafficata senza guardare, vieni investito da una macchina. Se cadi da un albero ti rompi qualcosa.
La vita reale e dura, crudele. Non le importa nulla degli eroi, dei finali lieti e di come dovrebbero essere le cose. Nella vita reale succedono tante disgrazie. Le persone muoiono, le battaglie vengono perse. Il male spesso vince.”
― Darren Shan, quote from A Living Nightmare
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