“Who would sharpen a point aginst the darkness of the world?”
― William Golding, quote from The Inheritors
“Out of the firelight everything was black and silver, black island, rocks and trees carved cleanly out of the sky and silver river with a flashing light rippling back and forth along the lip of the fall.”
― William Golding, quote from The Inheritors
“The moon was through to the sunset side of the gap, but its light was hardly noticeable on the earth for the ruddy brilliance of the firelight.”
― William Golding, quote from The Inheritors
“Lok was running as fast as he could. His head was down and he carried his thorn bush horizontally for balance and smacked the drifts of vivid buds aside with his free hand.”
― William Golding, quote from The Inheritors
“A successful novel should erase the boundary line between writer and reader, so they can unite. When that happens, the novel becomes a part of life—the main course, not the dessert. A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments,”
― William Golding, quote from The Inheritors
William Golding
Born place: in St. Columb Minor, Cornwall, The United Kingdom
Born date September 19, 1911
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“Remember, the bread will be tempting, but I can resist it. It’s more important to me to lose weight. If I eat the bread, I’ll get momentary pleasure, but afterwards I’ll feel worse.”
― Judith S. Beck, quote from The Beck Diet Solution
“He did know: he knew her right away, and he felt known by her, and that was where the trouble really began...She could have been exotic or worldly or a Valkyrie and it would have meant nothing to him. But that Alice saw him―that was a feeling Amos had never experienced before, and it felt like a revelation and also like a virus.”
― Haven Kimmel, quote from The Solace of Leaving Early
“Jag försökte lära honom det enkla knepet att tänka på döden när man stötte på brudar. Det har hjälp mig själv många gånger genom åren och är förvånansvärt effektivt. Jag kommer alltså att dö om några futtiga årtionden. Min lekamen ska utplånas för tid och evighet. Samma sak kommer att hände med tjejen, vi ska alla stampas ut och försvinna. Om tusen år är våra liv, alla våra ljuvaste drömmar och värsta rädslor upplösta i jord och aska. Vad spelar det då för roll om hon nobbar eller är snorkig och skrattar en rakt i ansiktet? Tack vare denna krassa inställning har jag emellanåt uträttat märkliga ting på kärlekens område, vågat stöta på livsfarligt vackra kvinnor till exempel, och ibland också faktiskt fått leka med dem.
Det här var det enda rådet som Niila verkligen lyssnade på. Han började tänka på döden oftare än på tjejer. Grabben blev kort sagt riktigt outhärdlig.”
― Mikael Niemi, quote from Popular Music from Vittula
“Because most of the girls were still in mourning and all of them had lost their textbooks, even pencils and pens, Shaukat Ali began the first classes by reading to them from poetry and religious texts. "Reading, literature, and spirituality are good for the soul," he told them. "So we will start with these studies.”
― Greg Mortenson, quote from Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
“Mind your business" had been the motto of her childhood. But now that seemed like a failing in a friend.”
― Anita Diamant, quote from Good Harbor
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