Gordon Dahlquist · 760 pages
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“в робството си вярвах, че тази любов ще ме освободи”
― Gordon Dahlquist, quote from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
“Не можеш да спечелиш нищо, ако не си готов да го изгубиш - всичко или част.”
― Gordon Dahlquist, quote from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
“Chang believed that learning was dangerous and best suited for private contemplation, not something to put in the service of the highest bidder- as the Institute did, in thrall to the patronage of men with blind dreams of empire. Society was not bettered by such men of "vision" - though, if Chang was honest, was it bettered by anyone?”
― Gordon Dahlquist, quote from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
“She was difficult, she knew. She did not make friends. She was brisk and demanding, unsparing and indulgent.”
― Gordon Dahlquist, quote from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
“She knew how fortunate she was to have her independence, and to have a disposition that cared so little for the opinions of others. Let them talk, she thought, as long as they also saw her holding her head high, and as long as she possessed the whip-hand of wealth.”
― Gordon Dahlquist, quote from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
“There was too much to say - she wanted to prove her independence but knew the Contessa would not care, she wanted revenge but knew the Contessa would never admit her defeat.”
― Gordon Dahlquist, quote from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
“Chang despised authority on principle, for even when veiled by the rubric of practical necessity or the weight of tradition he could not see institutional power as anything but an expression of arbitrary personal will, and it galled him profoundly.”
― Gordon Dahlquist, quote from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
“It is always best when discussing serious matters to do so around a teapot.”
― Gordon Dahlquist, quote from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
“Heroines did not pick their own battles—the ones they knew they could win. On the contrary, they managed what they had to manage, and they did not lie to themselves about relying on others for help instead of accomplishing the thing alone.”
― Gordon Dahlquist, quote from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
“What if Captain Smythe did not reject his orders? What if Captain Smythe was not there at all? What if instead of soldiers they”
― Gordon Dahlquist, quote from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
“She was already fierce. She required none of this nonsense, and if she’d carried a man’s strength and her father’s horsewhip these villains would as one be on their knees.”
― Gordon Dahlquist, quote from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
“What use is decency when we have been thrust into this peril—treading about without even a corset! Are we to be judged?”
― Gordon Dahlquist, quote from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
“That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and accoutrements were by definition objective, even scientific, in nature.”
― Gordon Dahlquist, quote from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
“Wake him or put a bullet through his brain. No one will protest. Or leave him—but I suggest choosing, my dear. I have learned it is best to be haunted by one’s actions rather than one’s lack of them.”
― Gordon Dahlquist, quote from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
“Despite himself he scoffed—a staccato bark of saliva—at the very notion of ladders.”
― Gordon Dahlquist, quote from The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
Gordon Dahlquist
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“white crescents beneath the pupils made his pale blue eyes seem to protrude, though they did not: lacking depth, they appeared to be inset into the skin like stones in hide.”
― Peter Matthiessen, quote from Shadow Country
“Ako vam je suviše stalo do onoga što imate kazati, ako vam je ono suviše priraslo srcu, možete biti sigurni, da ćete doživeti potpuni neuspeh. Postat ćete patetični, postati ćete sentimentalni, pod vašim rukama nastaće nešto nezgrapno, nespretno, neozbiljno, neobuzdano, bez ironije, neslano, dosadno, banalno a kraj priče biće: samo ravnodušnost u ljudi, samo razočaranje i jad u vama.
Jer tako vam je to , Lizaveto: Osećaj, topli, srdačni osećaj uvek je banalan i neupotrebljiv a umetnička je samo razdraženost i hladna ekstaza našeg pokvarenog, našeg artističkog živčanog sistema”
― Thomas Mann, quote from Tonio Kröger
“Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.”
― Suetonius, quote from The Twelve Caesars
“Yes, storms are damaging, but we need them because they clear away the bracken that prevents new flowers from having a chance to grow. And of course we need the sun to shine on those new flowers that without the storm might never have had a chance to bloom.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Awaken
“I asked God "Why, why, why?" I turned my face away and wished that I were imagining it all. I had tasted the bitterest essence of war, the sight of helpless comrades being slaughtered, and it filled me with disgust.”
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