“the truth was not always what people wanted to hear; sometimes it was better to keep the burden of truth to yourself.”
― Katerina Diamond, quote from The Teacher
“Of course every person you meet in life has an impact on who you become, no matter how small the interaction, everything matters.”
― Katerina Diamond, quote from The Teacher
“People, she knew, are rarely who they show themselves to be. There is always a lie, always a mask.”
― Katerina Diamond, quote from The Teacher
“When hope fails all that follows is complete and utter despair. Without hope there is no despair.”
― Katerina Diamond, quote from The Teacher
“It’s very complicated in your head, isn’t it,”
― Katerina Diamond, quote from The Teacher
“What the hell happened, then? Where’s the body?’ Daniels was annoyed. ‘Out back in the conservatory, it’s all kinds of fucked up,’ Grey offered.”
― Katerina Diamond, quote from The Teacher
“the prettier the packaging, the more emotionally expensive the contents.”
― Katerina Diamond, quote from The Teacher
“the higher you put someone on a pedestal the further they have to fall.”
― Katerina Diamond, quote from The Teacher
“trust once broken can never be repaired.”
― Katerina Diamond, quote from The Teacher
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“Despite all her diligent efforts to remake herself into a model of propriety, when it come to falling in love she'd reverted to from and fallen in love with a man who was a renegade, a black sheep, a daring, cynical, tough social outcast who in some ways reminded her of the boys she'd known on the Chicago streets.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Perfect
“The Evasive Cartwheel ™ © etc., Bartimaeus of Uruk, circa. 2800 B.C.E. Often imitated, never surpassed. As famously memorialized in the New Kingdom tomb paintings of Ramses III— you can just see me in the background of The Dedication of the Royal Family before Ra, wheeling out of sight behind the pharaoh.”
― Jonathan Stroud, quote from The Ring of Solomon
“Why you wan' the whole world when ya have a likkle piece a hope here? Stay. Stay and fight, man. Fight till you look 'pon what you wan' see.”
― Andrea Levy, quote from Small Island
“Don't make the extremely foolish mistake of thinking that winning is everything. If there is one person that I would really like to smack, it is the person who said, "Winning is not the main thing. It's the only thing." That's awful. Taking part is the main thing. Doing your best is the main thing. There is no shame in not winning. The shame is in not trying to win, which is of course another matter altogether. Above all, be gracious in defeat. Believe me, you'll get plenty of chances to put this into practice, so you might as well
start working on it now.”
― Bill Bryson, quote from I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
“In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, quote from Red Mars
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