“She hadn't seen him since yesterday, and Charlotte did not understand the sensation that gripped her at the sight of him.
As if she were a lightning rod, waiting for the storm above to strike. As if she had lost all control over her life and was thrown into chaos.”
― Michelle Diener, quote from The Emperor's Conspiracy
“He was all but shouting, stalking toward her. He grabbed her arms and gave her a little shake. "This time, the bastards don't win. I win."
"What do you win?" she whispered.
He bent his head and crushed his lips to hers.”
― Michelle Diener, quote from The Emperor's Conspiracy
“I think he's quite aware , as is everyone here, that you don't need to worm your way into my bed, Miss Raven." He stepped away from her. "You need only crook your finger and I would be ripping your clothes off your body.”
― Michelle Diener, quote from The Emperor's Conspiracy
“She smiled at the idea of being a captive princess in the rookeries, or a restrained mouse in the glitter of the ton.”
― Michelle Diener, quote from The Emperor's Conspiracy
“Of anyone, I know better than most we are what we make ourselves.”
― Michelle Diener, quote from The Emperor's Conspiracy
“You're a hope-killer. 'Cause at least if you'd done it on your back, that's something we c'n understand. Something we c'n do ourselves. But kindness? Luck like that-- it's a million-to-one chance, and you already took the one chance going.”
― Michelle Diener, quote from The Emperor's Conspiracy
Michelle Diener
Born place: London, The United Kingdom
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“A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, quote from A Man Without a Country
“And yet. And yet. If asked - if pressed - Honora would have to say she is strangely content. It's an odd feeling that she cannot describe to anyone - not to her mother and certainly not to Sexton, whose unhappiness seems to have no bounds, whose unhappiness is defined now by what he does not have, which is almost everything. He will always, in his mind, be the salesman who no longer has anything to sell. A man who longs for the open road but who cannot ever take it. Whereas Honora, oddly, now has more purpose than she ever did before. She is a dutiful wife who tends to her husband in spite of his weaknesses. She is a woman with ingenuity. She is a woman without illusions. She is a woman who, above all, is too busy trying to make a go of it to fret about her marriage.”
― Anita Shreve, quote from Sea Glass
“To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.”
― David Foster Wallace, quote from Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
“she watched his face because she hoped it would betray some indication of her own reality – some flicker of interest or concentration of notice which might indicate that she was actually present with another person.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, quote from The Mirror of Her Dreams
“حين يصل الكاتب عادة إلى الصفحة الأخيرة، تكون أغلى أمنية لديه أن يقرأ الناس كتابه بعد مائة أو مائتي عام. وبالطبع، لا يمكن التكهن بذلك، فهناك كتب أراد لها مؤلفوها الخلود ثم انطفأت غداة صدورها، في حين أن كتاباً قد يبقى، وكنا نخاله مجرد ترفيه لتلامذة المدراس. غير أن الأمل لا يفارقنا. أما هذا الكتاب الذي ليس ترفيهاً ولا عملاً أدبياً، فسوف أتمنى بشأنه عكس ذلك، أن يكتشفه حفيدي يوماً، وقد أصبح راشداً، مصادفةً في مكتبة العائلة، فيتصفحه ويقرأ بعض صفحاته، ثم يعيده فوراً إلى الرف المغطى بالغبار حيث تناوله، مستخفاً ومندهشاً للحاجة إلى قول هذه الأمور في الزمن الذي عاش فيه جده..”
― Amin Maalouf, quote from In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
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