Quotes from The Fourth Hand

“Lemties neįmanoma įžvelgti, nebent jei sapnuoji ar esi apsvaigęs iš meilės.”
― John Irving, quote from The Fourth Hand

“Aren’t eccentricities fairly common among overachievers.”
― John Irving, quote from The Fourth Hand

“As for Dr. Zajac’s modest contribution to the ongoing pollution of the Charles River… well, let’s be fair… In his hopelessly old-fashioned opinion, a lot worse than dogshit was dumped into the Charles on daily basis.”
― John Irving, quote from The Fourth Hand

“And feeling like a failed sexual predator, because of pregnant Mary…”
― John Irving, quote from The Fourth Hand

“Americans are suckers for an English accent.”
― John Irving, quote from The Fourth Hand

“When they weren’t praying, they did what schoolgirls everywhere do. They laughed, they shrieked, they burst into hysterical sobs – all for no apparent reason…

The schoolgirls also played the worst Western music imaginable, and they took a surfeit of baths – so many baths that the traditional inn where Wallingford and Evelyn Arbuthnot stayed was repeatedly running out of hot water.”
― John Irving, quote from The Fourth Hand

“There is often a defining experience that marks any significant change in the course of a person’s life.”
― John Irving, quote from The Fourth Hand

“Was he nice? He didn’t know. He hoped he was, but how many of us truly know?”
― John Irving, quote from The Fourth Hand

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“The boy was weeping openly when Leesha turned back to him. “Just put me back out into the night,” he said, holding up a crippled hand. “I was meant to die a long time ago, and everyone that tries to save me ends up dead.”
Leesha took the crippled hand in hers and looked him in the eye. “I'll take my chances,” she said, squeezing. “We survivors have to look out for one another.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Warded Man

“Each man cannot judge except by himself," he said, blushing. "There will be entire freedom when it makes no difference whether one lives or does not live. That is the goal to everything."
"The goal? But then perhaps no one will even want to live?"
"No one," he said resolutely.
"Man is afraid of death because he loves life, that's how I understand it," I observed, "and that is what nature tells us."
"That is base, that is the whole deceit!" his eyes began to flash. "Life is pain, life is fear, and man is unhappy. Now all is pain and fear. Now man loves life because he loves pain and fear. That's how they've made it. Life now is given in exchange for pain and fear, and that is the whole deceit. Man now is not yet the right man. There will be a new man, happy and proud. He for whom it will make no difference whether he lives or does not live, he will be the new man. He who overcomes pain and fear will himself be God. And this God will not be.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, quote from Demons

“If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from The Shadow Rising

“قاعدة أخري
إن السعي وراء الحب يغيرنا فما من أحد يسعي وراء الحب إلا وينضج أثناء رحلته
فما إن تبدأ رحلة البحث عن الحب
حتي تبدأ أن تتغير من الداخل والخارج”
― Elif Shafak, quote from The Forty Rules of Love

“Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes.
And he sets his mind to unknown arts.”
― Ovid, quote from Metamorphoses

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