“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
Steven James
Born place: The United States
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“Innocence is a kind of insanity”
― Graham Greene, quote from The Quiet American
“Since he had turned his back upon the fight his fears had been wondrously magnified. Death about to thrust him between the shoulder blades was far more dreadful than death about to smite him between the eyes. When he thought of it later, he conceived the impression that it is better to view the appalling than to be merely within hearing.”
― Stephen Crane, quote from The Red Badge of Courage
“Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Dart
“Lies," Mr Solomon said the next morning as he walked into the classroom. "We tell them to our friends," he said. "We tell them to our enemies. And eventually...we tell them to ourselves.”
― Ally Carter, quote from Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
“I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them.”
― Geraldine Brooks, quote from Year of Wonders
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