“.....the light you possess will burn to the great benefit of this world long after our poor footprints have been washed from the sand.”
― quote from The List of Seven
“If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might yet accomplish”
― quote from The List of Seven
“Barry's of a mind it's better to be silent and presumed a fool than to open your mouth and remove doubt altogether.”
― quote from The List of Seven
“What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?”
― quote from The List of Seven
“Remove the sentiment of love and discover how dangerously fragile are rendered one’s ties to the familiar world. How seductive the possibility of utter change.”
― quote from The List of Seven
“Perhaps that was the genuine siren’s song of legend, the temptation to jettison the ballast of the past and rush weightless and unencumbered down a dark tunnel of rebirth. Perhaps that was the soul’s destiny regardless.”
― quote from The List of Seven
“But as he stood at the brink of that decision, into the vacuum created by that shimmering lure of escape returned his primal conviction that when confronted by authentic evil—and he felt certain this is what pursued him—to move off one’s ground without a fight was an equal if not greater evil. An evil of failure and cowardice. One might pass a lifetime, or an endless string of lifetimes, without ever facing such an unequivocal assault as this against the covenant of what a man holds true about himself. Better to lose your life in defense of its sanctity than to turn tail and live out what remained of one’s allotted days as a beaten dog. It was a hollow refuge that gave no shelter from self-loathing.”
― quote from The List of Seven
“No wonder tragedy wields the only hammer stout enough to crack the resilient bubble of complacency”
― quote from The List of Seven
“Beware the inveterate punster, Doyle, it’s a sure sign of brewing mental disturbance.”
― quote from The List of Seven
“But what stuck in her mind was the way Lord Hamlin had looked at her. Thinking of that, her face began to burn once again.”
― Melanie Dickerson, quote from The Healer's Apprentice
“But like every kiss, this one is an answer, a clumsy but tender answer to a question that eludes the power of language.”
― Sándor Márai, quote from Embers
“acho que o sentir da gente volteia, mas em certos modos, rodando em si mas por regras. O prazer muito vira medo, o medo vai vira ódio, o ódio vira esses desesperos? — desespero é bom que vire a maior tristeza, constante então para o um amor — quanta saudade... —; aí, outra esperança já vem...”
― João Guimarães Rosa, quote from Grande Sertão: Veredas
“We're meant to be friends but you never tell me anything.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Scorpia
“Smiling, Celia leaned up on her tiptoes and kissed him. She pulled back, pressing her hand flat against his chest. His heart thumped erratically against her palm.
"You're wrong about yourself," she said seriously. "You said you were heartless, but that's not true. I can feel it, Corrado. It's in there. And as long as it's beating, I know it's there, working overtime, and you'll never convince me otherwise.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Made
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