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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“She was afraid of me. That much was obvious, but there was a fire there, too, and the more she fought it, the more it turned me on.
The way her body reacted to me told me that there was only so long she could resist the inevitable. The inevitable being me fucking her until she couldn’t remember her own name.
It’s not like she knew it anyway.”
― T.M. Frazier, quote from King

“That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it.”
― Margaret Peterson Haddix, quote from Double Identity

“من خلال ما مر من احداث وما خبرته من عملى مع شركة مين وجدت نفسى اسال الاسئلة نفسها مجددا : كم من القرارات -بما فيها القرارات التاريخية التى اثرت على ملايين البشر - اتخذها رجال او نساء دفعتهم مصالحهم الشخصية وليست الرغبة فى تحرى الحقيقة ؟ وكم من المسئولين رفيعى المستوى فى حكومتنا ساقهم الجشع الشخصى بدلا من ان يهديهم الولاء للوطن ؟ وكم من حروب اشتعلت ,فقط لان الرئيس يريد تحسين صورته السيئة امام ناخبيه ؟”
― John Perkins, quote from Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

“in kings people overlook and forgive behaviour they would not tolerate in others.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon

“Like, Jayno-eyes? That’s just as stupid as Berrystumpytail,” his sister replied.”
― Erin Hunter, quote from Outcast

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