“Simon called you 'Machiavelli disguised as a debutante.'" "Gosh," I said, not sure whether to feel flattered or insulted.”
― quote from The FitzOsbornes in Exile
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife,' I said, sighing.
'Is it?' said Veronica, looking surprised. 'Universally acknowledged? Surely that presupposes life similar to human societies beyond this planet, and besides--'
'No, no, it's a quote from ... Never mind,' I said.”
― quote from The FitzOsbornes in Exile
“Do you know what it is?' [Toby] said thoughtfully. 'It's that they haven't had anything really awful happen to them. No wonder they seem so superficial and unfeeling.'
It was certainly an interesting theory, ... [but] surely one didn't need to have suffered in order to possess empathy for those who had? All it required was a bit of imagination and a well-stocked library.”
― quote from The FitzOsbornes in Exile
“I wondered whether mad people would be better off if their memories could be neatened up, or taken off the shelves on which they were stored and replaced with nicer ones, and if they'd be the same person then, or completely different ones, and whether dreams were like a vandal rampaging through a library of memories, tearing out random pages and turning them into paper boats...”
― quote from The FitzOsbornes in Exile
“Sometimes I think Life is best summed up as
(a) Awful Bits
and
)b) This That Successfully Distract One from the Awful Bits”
― quote from The FitzOsbornes in Exile
“- Хайде, старче, не прави глупости. Подпиши таз гадост – изръмжа Хедрон, като се приведе над Круг и отпусна на рамото му ръката с лулата. – Има ли някакво значение? Драсни я тази твоя комерсиално безценна заврънкулка. Хайде! Никой няма да пипне нашите кръгове, но все пак нали трябва да имаме място, където да ги чертаем.
- Не и в калта, уважаеми, не и в калта – назидателно рече Круг и за първи път се усмихна тази вечер.
- Хайде стига! Не се прави на надут педант – въздъхна Хедрон. – Защо да ме караш да се чувствам толкова неудобно? Аз подписах. И какво? Моите богове изобщо не се трогнаха.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, quote from Bend Sinister
“didn't think of it.” She supposed she should have”
― Iris Johansen, quote from The Killing Game
“I looked around. This house only the night before had been a home, and serves as a storage locker for memories that I could barely remember and a bunch of things I'd rather forget.”
― Laurie Notaro, quote from Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood
“Very little of what he learned of people’s actions began or ended with either the noble ideals or the fiendish wickedness he had been taught lay behind all great struggles. There was something comforting in this.”
― David Anthony Durham, quote from Acacia: The War with the Mein
“Don’t use skepticism as a thinly veiled excuse for inaction or remaining in your comfort zone.”
― Timothy Ferriss, quote from The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
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