“I'm so sorry. I love you. I never could have hurt you.”
― Pam Jenoff, quote from The Kommandant's Girl
“Anna is something wrong " he asked his brow furrowed.
Yes I want to say. You ran a prison camp for Jews. You keep my parents locked in the ghetto. You let your wife's father be killed and would kill Jacob too if given the chance. Your wretched Gestapo came to our house and now Lukasz might have to leave us. Let me count the ways. Of course I did not dare to say any of this. "No Herr Kommandant " I replied managing to keep my voice even. "Everything is fine.”
― Pam Jenoff, quote from The Kommandant's Girl
“he says at last, bidding me good evening as though it were”
― Pam Jenoff, quote from The Kommandant's Girl
“empty, what was to stop vagrants, or even”
― Pam Jenoff, quote from The Kommandant's Girl
“governor’s office,” Diedrichson says solemnly without”
― Pam Jenoff, quote from The Kommandant's Girl
“A friend helps you move; a real friend helps you move a body.”
― Travis Luedke, quote from Blood Slave
“Pike did not move his eye from the sight picture. Cole, Ramos, Park. The Zeiss was fitted with a laser range finder displaying the range in tiny red numerals in the upper right quadrant of the sight picture. Elvis Cole was forty-two meters away. Overkill. Stone”
― Robert Crais, quote from Taken
“Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy or consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, quote from The Souls of Black Folk
“A TODOS, en algún momento, se nos ha revelado nuestra existencia como algo particular,
intransferible y precioso. Casi siempre esta revelación se sitúa en la adolescencia. El
descubrimiento de nosotros mismos se manifiesta como un sabernos solos; entre el mundo y
nosotros se abre una impalpable, transparente muralla: la de nuestra conciencia.”
― Octavio Paz, quote from The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
“Pois a mulher é bela... para o homem. Ela é doce ao paladar do homem, ela é perfume em suas narinas. Ela é fogo em seu sangue, é o toque das trombetas. Sua voz é a mais pura música em seus ouvidos. E ela pode abalar a alma do homem, que, de outro modo, mantém-se inabalável diante da terrível presença dos Titãs da Luz e das Trevas. E além de suas estrelas, nos distantes paraísos de sua imaginação, valkíria ou houri, o homem faz, de bom grado, um lugar para a mulher; pois ele não poderia ver um paraíso sem ela. E a espada cantando na batalha não canta canção tão doce como aquela que a mulher canta ao homem só com seu riso ao luar, seu gemido de amor na escuridão ou seu andar ondulante ao sol, enquanto ele cai, tonto de desejo, na grama.”
― Jack London, quote from The Star Rover
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