“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
“As children we accept magic as a normal part of life. Everything seems rooted in it, everything conspires in magic terms.”
― Paul Scott, quote from The Towers of Silence
“We should be careful
Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time”
― Philip Larkin, quote from Collected Poems
“I’d been the best leaper in K-9 class, which had led to all the trouble in a way I couldn’t remember exactly, although blood was involved.”
― Spencer Quinn, quote from Dog on It
“To the Germans, these Jewish foreigners, so different from the local bourgeois Jews who had, with discipline, allowed themselves t be rounded up and slaughtered, seemed suspect: too quick, too energetic, dirty, tattered, proud, unpredictable, primitive, too "Russian". The Jews found it impossible, and at the same time necessary, to distinguish the headhunters they had eluded and on whom they had taken passionate revenge from these shy, reserved old people, these blond, polite children who looked in at the station doors as if through the bars of the zoo. They aren't the ones, no; but it's their father, their teachers, their sons, themselves yesterday and tomorrow. How to resolve the puzzle? It can't be solved. Leave: as soon as possible. This land, too, is searing under our feet, this neat, trim town, loving order, this sweet bland air of full summer also scorches Leave, leave: we haven't come from the depths of Polessia in order to go to sleep in the Wartesaal of Plauen-am-Elster, and to while away our waiting with group snapshots and the Red Cross soup.”
― Primo Levi, quote from If Not Now, When?
“sharpened edge of a razor, hard to traverse, A difficult path is this—the poets declare!2 Science”
― Huston Smith, quote from The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions
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