“If you're not at least willing to die for something- something that really matters- in the end, you die for nothing.”
― Andrew Klavan, quote from The Truth of the Matter
“A rock is harder than a feather, you can talk and jabber and make exceptions, but in the end, if you have to choose which one is gonna hit you on the head, you'll choose the feather every single time.”
― Andrew Klavan, quote from The Truth of the Matter
“Have you ever had to get through a day, smiling at people, talking, as if everything were normal and okay, while all the time you felt like you were carrying a leaden weight of unhappiness inside you?”
― Andrew Klavan, quote from The Truth of the Matter
“Life's funny chucklehead. You only get one and you don't want to throw it away. But you can't really live it at all unless you're willing to give it up for the things you love. If you're not at least willing to die for something-something that really matters-in the end you die for nothing.”
― Andrew Klavan, quote from The Truth of the Matter
“I'd left them because I'd loved them. Beth and my parents and my friends and my life-my free, American life. I loved them, and if I had a chance to protect them from the people who wanted to destroy them then I had to take that chance even if it meant I would never see them again.”
― Andrew Klavan, quote from The Truth of the Matter
“There may come a time when even the most peaceful man alive has to fight or else something truly evil will happen”
― Andrew Klavan, quote from The Truth of the Matter
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“Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade, not just a sickness in metaphor but in fact as well. It can change the way one looks at the world; the faces one sees in street look not just indeferent but ugly...perhaps even malignant. Homesickness is real sickness--the ache of the uprooted plant" the breathing method”
― Stephen King, quote from The Body
“Sex.
I was going to have sex.
With a boy.
A hot boy.
A hot BRITISH boy.
Or maybe I was going to throw up.
What if I threw up on the hot British boy?
What if I threw up on the hot British boy DURING SEX?”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
“Мария тоже слегка побледнела, но ей импонируют интеллектуалы - от этого я так и не смог ее отучить; интеллект Кинкеля импонировал также будущей госпоже Фредебейль: словесную обработку, которой ее подвергли, она сопровождала вздохами, на мой взгляд почти неприличными. Поистине, на бедняжку обрушился целый интеллектуальный смерч, в ход было пущено все - от отцов церкви до Брехта, и, когда я, отдышавшись немного, пришел с балкона, они впали в состояние полной прострации и пили крюшон... и все это только потому, что бедная простушка похвалила "неплохие рассказики" Бенна.
Сейчас у нее уже двое детей от Фредебейля, хотя ей еще нет двадцати двух; телефонные звонки все еще раздавались в их квартире, и я представил себе, что в эту минуту она возится с молочными бутылочками, детскими присыпками, пеленками и вазелином, донельзя беспомощная и сконфуженная, и еще я подумал о ворохе грязного детского белья и о груде жирной немытой посуды на кухне. Однажды, когда они доконали меня своими разговорами, я вызвался помочь ей по хозяйству - подсушивать хлеб, делать бутерброды и варить кофе; исполнять такую работу мне куда менее противно, чем участвовать в беседах определенного свойства.”
― Heinrich Böll, quote from The Clown
“I want to write. I've already told my mother: That's what I want to do-write. No answer the first time. Then she asks, Write what? I say, Books, novels. [...] She's against it, it's not worthy, it's not real work, it's nonsense. Later she said, A childish idea.”
― Marguerite Duras, quote from The Lover
“The biggest lies we save for ourselves.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Prince of Thorns
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