“Plastic people flashing fake smiles at a pretend world.”
― Steven James, quote from The Pawn
“None of us can know what it's like for someone else. It's what makes us individuals. We each have our own pain, our own mistakes. But we can reach out toward each other, help each other. That's what makes us human.”
― Steven James, quote from The Pawn
“All of life is a complex game of strategy; moves, and countermoves, taking and losing pieces, setting up for the final”
― Steven James, quote from The Pawn
“All of life is a complex game of strategy; moves, and countermoves, taking and losing pieces, setting up for the final endgame.”
― Steven James, quote from The Pawn
“He said souls can be just as bloody and torn up as bodies can. He called it the other kind of violence.”
― Steven James, quote from The Pawn
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“I don't give a rat's ass what Garrett's favorite color is. And for the record, I have a vagina, so I'm well aware of the fact I can look hot without looking slutty.”
― quote from A Beautiful Lie
“Und es gibt auch Dinge, wo zwischen Erleben und Erfassen diese Unvergleichkeit herrscht. Immer aber ist es so, dass das, was wir in einem Augenblick ungeteilt und ohne Fragen erleben, unverständlich und verwirrt wird, wenn wir es mit den Ketten der Gedanken zu unserem bleibenden Besitze fesseln wollen. Und was groß und menscenfremd aussieht, solange unsere Worte von ferne danach langen, wird einfach und verliert das Beunruhigende, sobald es in den Tatkreis unseres Lebens eintritt.”
― Robert Musil, quote from The Confusions of Young Törless
“The Bohane all the while ferried a drag of gravel and stones and the drag swirled drunkenly deep down – it had the sound of chains being swung.”
― Kevin Barry, quote from City of Bohane
“There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.”
― Stefan Zweig, quote from The Post-Office Girl
“Maybe the mind of the majority is always the healthy mind, simply by virtue of its numbers.”
― Stacey Jay, quote from Of Beast and Beauty
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