“I am no coward sir! I shall stand and fight!"
"Well, I am," said Sal. "So can we go... please?”
― Alex Scarrow, quote from The Eternal War
“In a world turned upside-down, where everything was wrong, bizarre, you could at least look up at the sky and see normality. Stars that shone regardless of who won a civil war, or who should or should not be a president. Their light was billions of years old. They didn't have a care...”
― Alex Scarrow, quote from The Eternal War
“After all, what more does a true genius want? The mind itself is the palace where all the real treasures, the works of art, the indulgences exist.”
― Alex Scarrow, quote from The Eternal War
“It sounded like walls tumbling, liberty bells chiming, government buildings being stormed.
It sounded like a revolution.
It sounded like hope.”
― Alex Scarrow, quote from The Eternal War
“Zijn dit kaartjes voor de eerste klas?' vroeg Kady plotseling... 'En een reservering voor de duurste suite in het Savoy?'
...
'... ze pakken het wel heel groots aan,' zei Jake behoedzaam... 'Er zijn vast camera's,' ging hij door...
'Nou, een heel kort reisje dan. Misschien valt het wel mee.”
― James Rollins, quote from Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow
“I refuse to cut the joy from the lives of others in fear I might lose my own. Only the former is definite, and may be controlled. The latter is up to fate.”
― Penelope Fletcher, quote from Venomous
“Ο γερο-Εγκούτσι μπορούσε να δει, με τα μάτια της φαντασίας του, την απέραντη σκοτεινή θάλασσα και το χαλάζι να πέφτει και να λιώνει μέσα της. Ένα άγριο πουλί, κάτι σαν μεγάλος αετός πετούσε ξυστά στα κύματα, κρατώντας στο στόμα του κάτι που έσταζε αίμα. Μήπως ήταν ένα μωρό; Δεν μπορεί να ήταν. Ίσως ήταν το φάσμα της ανθρώπινης κακοήθειας.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, quote from House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories
“If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.”
― Dante Alighieri, quote from Dante's Divine Comedy Set: Three-Volume Set
“the fundamental question Juvenile Court was designed to ask - What's the best way to deal with this individual kid? - is often lost in the process, replaced by a point system that opens the door, or locks it, depending on the qualities of the crime, not the child.”
― Edward Humes, quote from No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court
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