“You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.”
― Arthur Phillips, quote from The Tragedy of Arthur
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?" wrote Marlowe, the man Shakespeare feared for many years was the better writer, the man who with those words issued a license to misery to millions of underexperienced teenagers and thousands of overeducated middle-aged jackasses.”
― Arthur Phillips, quote from The Tragedy of Arthur
“How strangely distributed are our scruples. When they are evenly spread across our lives, we are judged good people. Mine, unfortunately, tend to bunch up.”
― Arthur Phillips, quote from The Tragedy of Arthur
“Maria, groaning for scraps, would drape his head on my feet as I ate, trying to camouflage himself as my napkin or the rug.”
― Arthur Phillips, quote from The Tragedy of Arthur
“Shakespeare’s lines are a nursery of titles for other, better writers: Pale Fire, Exit Ghost, Infinite Jest, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Sound and the Fury, Unnatural Acts, The Quick and the Dead, Against the Polack, To Be or Not to Be, Band of Brothers, Casual Slaughters. At the very least, I have never named one of my books after his stuff.”
― Arthur Phillips, quote from The Tragedy of Arthur
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“One day the enemy will cross the Great Green. They will bring war and tragedy to these eastern lands. Such is the nature of vile men. Yet we cannot live in dread of them. We cannot hide behind these high walls, our hearts trembling. For that is not life. We must accept the needs and the duties of each day, and face them one at a time.”
― David Gemmell, quote from Lord of the Silver Bow
“Mooch? What does that word mean?”
Ellie smiled. “It’s a term when you live with someone and take something freely from the person who has to work for it. It’s not a good thing. It’s hard to explain that one. I guess I could describe it as I’m a burden to him.”
“How? He already had a room you could have.”
Ellie struggled with her thoughts. Some words were hard to explain. “Yes. He did but usually you don’t live with someone unless you are a couple. Then it is acceptable if you share food and a home. If you aren’t, then both parties are supposed to work, similar to a partnership, be equal. I am not his girlfriend or his partner. He provides a home and food for me while I give him nothing in return. I’m a mooch.”
“I think I understand.” Breeze smiled. “And you are not a mooch. He doesn’t know what one is so therefore you can’t be what he doesn’t know exists.”
― Laurann Dohner, quote from Fury
“..седнах на земята и видях сам себе си, наобиколен от гълъби, които се галят в мен, за тях аз бях живителен бог, вглеждах се назад в живота си и виждах себе си сега, заобиколен от божи пратеници, гълъби и гълъбици, сякаш бях някакъв светец, сякаш бяха избраник на небесата, и докато другите ми се смееха, чувах смях, викове и подмятания, аз бях обдарен с гълъбово послание и вярвах, че невероятното отново е станало реалност, и че дори да имах десет милиона и три хотела, това галене и тези целуващи човчици на гълъби и гълъбици, те са ми изпратени от самите небеса, които навярно са харесали нещо в мен, всичко изглеждаше така, както го бях виждал на картините по олтарите и върху изобразяващите пътя на Христос към Голгота стенописи, покрай които се прибирахме в килиите си.Аз обаче нищо не виждах и нищо не чувах, исках само да бъда това, което никога не можах да стана, милионер, и въпреки че притежавах два милиона, многократен милионер станах едва сега, когато за първи път видях, че тези гълъбици са мои приятели, че са, като в някоя притча, послание, което тепърва ме очаква...”
― Bohumil Hrabal, quote from I Served the King of England
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― Anthony Hope, quote from The Prisoner of Zenda
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― Mary Downing Hahn, quote from Deep and Dark and Dangerous (A Ghost Story)
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