“That is almost always the way with stories. True to their very core, even when the events and the people in them are different.”
― quote from The Glass Sentence
“Men may irritate women entirely by accident, but I believe they infuriate one another wholly by design.”
― quote from The Glass Sentence
“There can be no scholar without the heroic mind.”
― quote from The Glass Sentence
“To be connected to the world is a constant, difficult labor.”
― quote from The Glass Sentence
“Some things (and people) go elsewhere and soon return. Others go elsewhere and appear to want to stay. In those cases, the only solution for the very determined is to find them: to go elsewhere and bring them back.”
― quote from The Glass Sentence
“She was one part melancholy kindness, two parts mysterious unease.”
― quote from The Glass Sentence
“The data don’t lie: a Chicago street prostitute is more likely to have sex with a cop than to be arrested by one.”
― Steven D. Levitt, quote from SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
“Deep inside your heart there are two wolves. Each strong enough to devour the other, they are in constant war. One is evil through and through. He is revenge, rage, greed, arrogance, stupidity, superiority, envy, guilt, lies, ego, false-pride, inferiority, self-doubt, suspicion, and resentment. The other wolf is everything kind. He is made of peace, blissful tranquility, wisdom, love and joy, hope and humility, compassion, benevolence, generosity, truth, faith, and empathy. They circle each other inside your heart and they fight one another at all times. Day and night. There is no letup. Not even while you sleep. Be careful which wolf you feed. For that beast will follow you home and live with you until you either make a bed for it to stay, or find the temerity to drive it out.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Time Untime
“That’s the oppressive thing about happiness, the way everything is out on the table like an open book:”
― Herman Koch, quote from The Dinner
“لو كان الموت هو نهاية كل شيء, لنال الاشرار صفقة طيبة بالموت ,ولسعدوا بسكون ابدانهم,اذ مع الموت يتحررون ايضا من الروح التي اقترفت شرهم”
― Oriana Fallaci, quote from A Man
“Memory was such a worthless thing, really. Nothing it dealt with was attainable. It was concerned with phantom acts and feelings, with all that was uncapturable except in thought. It was without satisfaction. Mostly, it hurt…”
― Richard Matheson, quote from The Shrinking Man
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