Quotes from The Twenty-One Balloons

“Half of this story is true and the other half might very well have happened.”
― quote from The Twenty-One Balloons

“The best way of travel, however, if you aren't in any hurry at all, if you don't care where you are going, if you don't like to use your legs, if you don't want to be annoyed at all by any choice of directions, is in a balloon. In a balloon, you can decide only when to start, and usually when to stop. The rest is left entirely to nature.”
― quote from The Twenty-One Balloons

“It seems strange to me that mechanical progress always seems to leave the slower demands of elegance far behind.”
― quote from The Twenty-One Balloons

“That's the peculiar thing about nature," explained Mr. F., "it guards it's rarest treasures with greatest care.”
― quote from The Twenty-One Balloons

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“زن خاکستر معشوق را به خانه می‌آورد و آن را در یک ساعت شنی می‌ریزد و می‌گوید: خیال کردی حقه زدی و از گذشت زمان راحت شدی؟ حال توی همین ساعت جریان داشته باش و با من پیر شو.”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum

“Нужно знать, что одно значительное лицо недавно сделался значительным лицом, а до того времени он был незначительным лицом. Впрочем, место его и теперь не почиталось значительным в сравнении с другими, еще значительнейшими. Но всегда найдется такой круг людей, для которых незначительное в глазах прочих есть уже значительное”
― Nikolai Gogol, quote from The Overcoat

“If we get lucky, it will grow hair.”
― Kirsten Miller, quote from The Darkness Dwellers

“I went utterly still as I watched us dancing. That...oh, holy shit. I knew my cheeks were flaming as I watched us move against each other. Our hands just kind of went wherever they wanted. Body parts rubbing sinuously together. I placed a hand over my mouth gently as I watched us...
"Jesus," Elder Merrick muttered, sounding a bit breathless. "I think I bring sex to the dance floor, but fuck..." A pause. "Queen Ruckler, I know I've offered before...and it still stands."
Elder Jacobs grunted. "Maybe I could get a copy of this-”
― Scarlett Dawn, quote from King Tomb

“My heart seemed to stop. Garret paused, as if gathering his thoughts, or his courage, then took a deep breath. “I know I’ve made mistakes,” he continued, shaking his head. “But there’s still the chance for me to fix them. I shouldn’t have walked out that night.” His brow creased, a flicker of pain and regret going through his eyes. “Ember, I know you can’t feel what I do,” he said. “I get that. But…I want to be with you. And if that’s not possible, I’ll be content just to be close. Fighting Talon with you and Riley, helping people, saving other dragons from the Order-there is nothing I want more. And nowhere else I want to be.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from Soldier

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