“Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
― Nelson DeMille, quote from The Charm School
“never ceased to amaze him how a discredited philosophy and a repressive nation still attracted idealists.”
― Nelson DeMille, quote from The Charm School
“The sun has riz, and the sun has set, and here we is in Roosha yet.”
― Nelson DeMille, quote from The Charm School
“Pravda, as you know, means ‘truth,’ and Izvestia means ‘news,’ and I’ve heard it said that there is no news in the Truth and no truth in the News.”
― Nelson DeMille, quote from The Charm School
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“The bathroom was jungle-fogged, flooded with puddles, piled with soaked towels; cakes of soap with long strands of blonde baked in.
A girl in pieces: Barbie-thin ankles, a shaving cut on her knee; hipbones she could stab you with; white hands gelled with strawberry body lotion.”
― Allyse Near, quote from Fairytales for Wilde Girls
“She smiled at me, and I never forgot it. Or more accurately, I always remembered it.”
― A.S. King, quote from Ask the Passengers
“Il me manque tellement. Ça ne devient pas plus facile. Peu importe ce que les gens disent, le temps ne guérit pas les blessures. Il vous montre simplement de nouvelles, et encore plus douloureuses manières de souffrir de l'absence de quelqu'un. Plus cette personne est partie depuis longtemps, pire c'est, parce qu'on commence à oublier son sourire, sa façon de pencher la tête lorsqu'elle réfléchissait, de vous regarder et de deviner ce à quoi vous pensiez. Bientôt, on se met même à avoir la sensation que les souvenir sont étés remplacés par des images photographiques - comme si la seule façon de se rappeler cette personne se trouvait désormais sur un cliché, et qu'elle devenait bidimensionnelle. Et comme ça déchiré le cœur rien que d'y penser, on évite de le faire.”
― Cat Clarke, quote from Undone
“The truth is, sir, that men do what their power permits them to do. We are no different from the Pharaohs or the Mongols: the difference is only that when we kill people we feel compelled to pretend that it is for some higher cause. It is this pretence of virtue, I promise you, that will never be forgiven by history.”
― Amitav Ghosh, quote from Sea of Poppies
“At the core of your heart, you are perfect and pure. No one and nothing can alter that.”
― Amit Ray, quote from Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
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