“Like any collection of family photographs, it was a random selection that told only fragments of a story. The real tale would be revealed by the pictures that were missing or never even taken at all, not the ones that had been so carefully framed or packed away neatly in an envelope.”
― Victoria Hislop, quote from The Island
“After the endless disappointing cups of Nescafé, served as though the tasteless dissolving granules of instant coffee were a delicacy, Alexis felt no cup of coffee had ever tasted as powerful and delicious as this.
It seemed that nobody had the heart to tell the Greeks that Nescafé was no longer a novelty – it was this old-fashioned thick and treacly fluid that everyone, including her, craved.”
― Victoria Hislop, quote from The Island
“spilled out like a volcanic eruption. Wardrobe”
― Victoria Hislop, quote from The Island
Victoria Hislop
Born place: The United Kingdom
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“These were gym towels. They were supposed to be thin and mean, the terry-cloth equivalent of coyotes. When you were sweating like a pig and couldn’t feel the bottoms of your feet from exertion, you didn’t want to pat yourself down with a Pomeranian.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from The Shadows
“To wander now is my abode;
To rest,—to rest would be
A privilege of hurricane
To memory and me.”
― Emily Dickinson, quote from The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
“In the middle of his performance, it dawned on me that this was exactly the effect Derek Novak had on me; one way or another, he always took my breath away.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Shade of Vampire
“Sometimes, someone could stumble unannounced into the train wreck that is your life and begin to pull you out of the heavy rubble weighing down on your chest.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sweet Fall
“It worked out the way it should have,”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Harvesting the Heart
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