“We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.”
― John Christopher, quote from The Prince in Waiting
“Even if it is nonsense, it is often useful to know what kind of nonsense men believe.”
― John Christopher, quote from The Prince in Waiting
“Before you have faith you must believe, and before you believe there must be evidence of some sort to persuade the mind. Faith is remembering that evidence and holding to it against all that seems to challenge or contradict it.”
― John Christopher, quote from The Prince in Waiting
“Everyone recognized she was without malice and therefore she provoked none.”
― John Christopher, quote from The Prince in Waiting
“There are disappointments in all men's lives, even those who have achieved their ambition, and there are compensations.”
― John Christopher, quote from The Prince in Waiting
“Then I went to the windows and pulled them open. The rain had stopped and the night was very still, black except for the glow behind the western hills that marked the Burning Lands. A dog barked far off, once and no more.”
― John Christopher, quote from The Prince in Waiting
John Christopher
Born place: in Huyton, Lancashire, The United Kingdom
Born date April 16, 1922
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“but it’s too dangerous. I don’t care what Ginny’s reasons were for sharing”
― J.D. Horn, quote from The Line
“Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.”
― Henry David Thoreau, quote from Walden and other writings
“In the months that followed my mother's death, I managed to look like a normal person. I walked the street; I answered my phone; I brushed my teeth; most of the time. But I was not OK. I was in grief. Nothing seemed important. Daily tasks were exhausting. Dishes piled in the sink, knives crusted with strawberry jam. At one point I did not wash my hair for ten days. I felt that I had abruptly arrived at a terrible, insistent truth about the impermanence of everyday.”
― Meghan O'Rourke, quote from The Long Goodbye
“She placed her hands at the sides of her enormous bosom and hiked it up. “Capito?” she said. “Make them bigger? They’re already up under my chin in this thing as it is!” “Si! Maggiore! Bigger!” Filomena said. Serafina tightened the bustier, then looked down at her cleavage. “It looks like I have two sea mounts stuck on the front of me. With an abyss between them,” she said. She peered at her reflection in the pool water. “All I can see is my chest!” “Buono! This is what soldati will see, too,” Filomena said. “Not the face.” She”
― Jennifer Donnelly, quote from Rogue Wave
“De hele wereld is vol mensen die hun hele leven op zoek blijven naar het wonder van de liefde zonder het ooit te zien. Het is heel simpel en vanzelfsprekend, maar onvindbaar voor wie ernaar zoekt.”
― Arthur Japin, quote from In Lucia's Eyes
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