“The secrets of survivors are not easily surrendered. They are locked away behind barricaded doors and accessed at great risk to those who possess them.”
― Daniel Silva, quote from The Rembrandt Affair
“before revelation. Zoe before truth. Zoe who was keeping a”
― Daniel Silva, quote from The Rembrandt Affair
“she had read once that the recovery time from a romantic relationship is equal to the life span of the relationship itself.”
― Daniel Silva, quote from The Rembrandt Affair
“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. —HONORÉ DE BALZAC”
― Daniel Silva, quote from The Rembrandt Affair
“scrutiny, he gave no sign of it. He watched”
― Daniel Silva, quote from The Rembrandt Affair
“My business is hurting, too. Everyone on the street is in trouble. I never thought I would say this, but the world was a much better place when the Americans were still rich.”
― Daniel Silva, quote from The Rembrandt Affair
“planning to tell me about your little”
― Daniel Silva, quote from The Rembrandt Affair
“Behind every fortune lies a great crime,” said Ramirez. “Honoré de Balzac,”
― Daniel Silva, quote from The Rembrandt Affair
“Snagging the ball from Pietr, Derek leaned in and snapped, “What? You
think you’re a bad-ass because you’ve got a tattoo?”
Derek body-checked Pietr with a force that would have sent anybody else onto the floor. Pietr wobbled but didn’t even move his feet to compensate. A minute later Derek skidded across the gym floor. Pietr was methodically dribbled and passed the ball between them. I saw him mouth the phrase “That’s why I’m a bad-ass!”
― Shannon Delany, quote from 13 to Life
“Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.”
― Yukio Mishima, quote from Runaway Horses
“Moses Never Closes was something folks counted on. It was a certain place in an uncertain world. Folks wanted it to stay the way it was, because once you change one part of a thing, all the other parts begin to shift, and pretty soon, you just don’t know what’s what anymore.”
― Jenny Wingfield, quote from The Homecoming of Samuel Lake
“Perhaps the truth was there was no perfect marriage, just some really good ones.”
― Karen Hawkins, quote from Sleepless in Scotland
“The Pill was introduced in the early 1960s and modern woman was born. Women were no longer going to be tied to the cycle of endless babies; they were going to be themselves. With the Pill came what we now call the sexual revolution. Women could, for the first time in history, be like men, and enjoy sex for its own sake. In the late 1950s we had eighty to a hundred deliveries a month on our books. In 1963 the number had dropped to four or five a month. Now that is some social change!”
― Jennifer Worth, quote from The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
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