“Before he'd met Anna, he'd thought he'd known what love was, thought he'd understood about friendship, romance, all of it, but he hadn't - not at all. Until he'd held Anna in his arms, until he'd let her see into his soul, until he'd heard her cry gently when he made love to her for the first time, he'd known nothing. And now, sometimes, when it was just the two of them, when he smelt her hair, caught her eye, he felt as though he knew all there was to know about everything, as though they knew the secret of life. A secret far more powerful than Longevity, far more long-lasting.”
― Gemma Malley, quote from The Resistance
“You see, what I want is life. A real life, full of moments of joy, of anguish, of irritation, of fun. A life with an end point, which makes each second important. A life that is full of love, that doesn't cause suffering and pain.”
― Gemma Malley, quote from The Resistance
“Danger manifests itself in many ways, Peter. Brilliance of mind can be as dangerous as a loaded weapon.”
― Gemma Malley, quote from The Resistance
“Many people lost their lives fighting for these rights - to vote, to be free, to work, to be able to get on the same bus as someone considered their superior. And it was the next generations who embedded these changes, who came to view women as equals to men, who came to understand that skin colour is of no relevance. Young people are the future. Without them, the world stands still.”
― Gemma Malley, quote from The Resistance
“The further away from something we are, the more we tend to mistrust it, Peter. we dislike the unknown, we reject anything alien to us: people with views that contradict ours, societies that are run along very different lines.”
― Gemma Malley, quote from The Resistance
“You mustn't let your emotions get the better of you. There is a great deal to be angry about, but anger doesn't change things.”
― Gemma Malley, quote from The Resistance
“You will choose your path, or perhaps it will choose you.”
― Gemma Malley, quote from The Resistance
“Curiosity also makes a great student.”
― Gemma Malley, quote from The Resistance
“They let you down, you let them down, then they're your best friend, until next time.”
― Gemma Malley, quote from The Resistance
“Real love, well, it means sacrifice. It means thinking of the other person's needs before your own.”
― Gemma Malley, quote from The Resistance
“Science teaches us that we are rarely right. The whole discipline of science is aimed at proving ourselves wrong, isn't it?”
― Gemma Malley, quote from The Resistance
“I rather enjoy being contradicted. It forces me to think harder.”
― Gemma Malley, quote from The Resistance
“We always leave a trail, Jude, whether we wish to or not.”
― Gemma Malley, quote from The Resistance
“The only tests worth passing are the ones we set ourselves.”
― Gemma Malley, quote from The Resistance
“HELPING ME You think mr think I was infertile having to tell Anna she... that she..”
― Gemma Malley, quote from The Resistance
“The trouble with science geeks, as you call them, is that hey put discovery before anything else. It was a science geek who discovered the atom bomb. He didn't intend to cause mass murder, but he did nonetheless.”
― Gemma Malley, quote from The Resistance
“Better to find your own way than to blindly trust the words of others, whoever they are.”
― Gemma Malley, quote from The Resistance
“All beauty has a dark side. Heaven can't exist without hell.”
― Gemma Malley, quote from The Resistance
“Forever isn't important-it's now that counts. Doing the right thing.”
― Gemma Malley, quote from The Resistance
“El peligro se manifiesta de tantas maneras distintas, Peter. Una mente brillante puede ser tan peligrosa como la más poderosa arma.”
― Gemma Malley, quote from The Resistance
“Reality wasn't as important as people made it out to be; to Jude it was simply the physical state in which he found himself, an environment he had limited control over.”
― Gemma Malley, quote from The Resistance
“More question. You know that curiosity killed the cat?”
― Gemma Malley, quote from The Resistance
“Fame, infamy, they're of the same family.”
― Gemma Malley, quote from The Resistance
“You are on the side of angels. But even angels fall, sometimes. We all make mistakes; without them we would learn nothing.”
― Gemma Malley, quote from The Resistance
“You see, what I want is life. A real life, full of moments of joy, of anguish, of irritation, of fun. a life with an end point, which makes each second important. A life that is full of love, that doesn't cause suffering and pain.”
― Gemma Malley, quote from The Resistance
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“Men, I thought, were more trouble than they were worth. Really, one should stick to books where one sees the hero coming a mile off.”
― Eva Rice, quote from The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
“What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience. The artist says, 'I will make that event happen again, altering its shape, which was disfigured by its contacts with other events, so that its true significance is revealed'; and his audience says, 'We will let that event happen again by looking at this man's picture or house, listening to his music or reading his book.' It must not be copied, it must be remembered, it must be lived again, passed through those parts of the mind which are actively engaged in life, which bleed when they are wounded and give forth the bland emulsions of joy, while at the same time it is being examined by those parts of the mind which stand apart from life. At the end of this process the roots of experience are traced; the alchemy by which they make a flower of joy or pain is, so far as is possible to our brutishness, detected. What is understood is mastered. If art could investigate all experiences then man would understand the whole of life, and could control his destiny.”
― Rebecca West, quote from Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
“I think about pinball, and how being a kid’s like being shot up the firing lane and there’s no veering left or right; or you’re just sort of propelled. But once you clear the top, like when you’re sixteen, seventeen, or eighteen, suddenly there’s a thousand different paths you can take, some amazing, others not. Tiny little differences in angles and speed’ll totally alter what happens to you later, so a fraction of an inch to the right, and the ball’ll just hit a pinger and a dinger and fly down between your flippers, no messing, a waste of 10 p. But a fraction to the left and it’s action in the play zone, bumpers and kickers, ramps and slingshots and fame on the high-score table.”
― David Mitchell, quote from The Bone Clocks
“[Lee Oswald] saw himself as part of something vast and sweeping. He was the product of a sweeping history, he and his mother, locked into a process, a system of money and property that diminished their human worth every day, as if by scientific law. The books made him part of something. Something led up to his presence in this room, in this particular skin, and something would follow. Men in small rooms. Men reading and waiting, struggling with secret and feverish ideas. (41)”
― Don DeLillo, quote from Libra
“But the thing is that I’m in love with Rafael’s story. I think I understand when Adam says that all our stories are different but in some ways our stories are all the same. I never really got that. But when I start to read Rafael’s journal, it’s as if I can see myself. It’s better than a mirror.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, quote from Last Night I Sang to the Monster
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