“Life is stronger than anything else, there is always a solution, and I will find it. I’m sure of that.”
― quote from The Only Girl in the World: A Memoir
“With every new reading, I’m gripped by the ending’s harsh lessons. ‘Don’t expect anything of him,’ it seems to be telling me. ‘Even if someday he realizes his own folly, he is dangerous and beyond redemption. Get out!”
― quote from The Only Girl in the World: A Memoir
“My true treasure is your presence, it is the rays of intelligence that you have poured into my heart.”
― quote from The Only Girl in the World: A Memoir
“The only sustenance that matters is the love in my dog’s eyes and the hope of meeting people who dare to truly live.”
― quote from The Only Girl in the World: A Memoir
“Great minds defend values—like justice in the case of Victor Hugo, and equality for Emile Zola.”
― quote from The Only Girl in the World: A Memoir
“the fight is about believing the unbelievable’, and who also believes that ‘life flows through everything’.”
― quote from The Only Girl in the World: A Memoir
“Playing chess with my father is torture. I have to sit very upright on the edge of my chair and respect the rules of impassivity while I consider my next move. I can feel myself dissolving under his stare. When I move a pawn he asks sarcastically, 'Have you really thought about what you're doing?' I panic and want to move the pawn back. He doesn't allow it: 'You've touched the piece, now you have to follow through. Think before you act. Think.”
― quote from The Only Girl in the World: A Memoir
“You can find ways to be okay with dying, but you can’t fake your way through living.”
― John Corey Whaley, quote from Noggin
“Do you want to know why men name their penis? So the most important decisions in their life aren't made by a stranger.”
― Linda Howard, quote from After the Night
“He says everything like it happened to someone else.”
― Brent Runyon, quote from The Burn Journals
“De ce-s cu toții așa de grosolani?Și sînt grosolani,subliniat grosolani ,chiar în clipele cînd nu au voie să fie grosolani,când omul,după beție,are toți nervii revărsați,când e descurajat și blând!De ce așa?O,dacă întreaga lume,dacă fiecare din lumea asta ar fi nesigur de sine și s-ar îndoi de temeinicia locului său sub soare- ce bine ar fi!N-ar mai exista nici entuziaști,nici fapte eroice,nici obsesii!Toți ar fi descurajați.Aș accepta să trăiesc pe pământ și o veșnicie,dacă mai înainte mi s-ar arăta un ungher unde nu întodeauna este loc pentru fapte eroice.”
― Venedikt Erofeev, quote from Moscow to the End of the Line
“That Fish of yours is queer in her attic.'
'Freddy, she is not!'
"Must be. Dash it, wouldn't write to you about Henry VIII if she wasn't! Stands to reason.”
― Georgette Heyer, quote from Cotillion
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