“If you believe you can read you can”
― Lisa McMann, quote from The Unwanteds
“I'd rather die fighting to keep us free to do as we wish, fighting to be free to come and go as we please, fighting so we no longer need to hide. Fighting the fear that all of you were programmed since birth to have. Fighting against Quill's bigotry, which says brains and brawn are better, or more important, than creativity.
Marcus Today”
― Lisa McMann, quote from The Unwanteds
“Alex dropped his eyes and took in a few breaths, vowing silently not to look at Samheed again until … well, ever.”
― Lisa McMann, quote from The Unwanteds
“Alex leaned over to Samheed. “If we get an hour’s worth of music lessons, I think my head might explode.” “In that case, bring on the music,” Samheed muttered. Alex”
― Lisa McMann, quote from The Unwanteds
“I hate to do it.” “It won’t hurt them.” “That’s exactly why I hate to do it,” growled”
― Lisa McMann, quote from The Unwanteds
Lisa McMann
Born place: in Holland, Michigan, The United States
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“[He] went on to tell her that certain work songs made the work a little easier, but that there were others, depending upon the time of day, that dragged a body down, so 'you just gotta be careful with your songs and your hummin' and whatnot.”
― Edward P. Jones, quote from The Known World
“She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end up with very empty pages.”
― Kate Morton, quote from The Distant Hours
“It was amusing, in such lightness of air, that the Prince should again present himself only to speak for the Princess, so unfortunately unable again to leave home; and that Mrs Verver should as regularly figure as an embodied, a beautifully deprecating apology for her husband, who was all geniality and humility among his own treasures, but as to whom the legend had grown up that he couldn't bear, with the height of his standards and the tone of the company, in the way of sofas and cabinets, habitually kept by him, the irritation and depression to which promiscuous visiting, even at pompous houses, had been found to expose him. ”
― Henry James, quote from The Golden Bowl
“CINCINNATI MORGUE, AN EQUAL-OPPORTUNITY SERVICE SINCE 1966.”
― Kim Harrison, quote from For a Few Demons More
“أخاف أن أحبك، فأفقدك ثم أتألم
وأخاف أيضا أن لا أحبك.. فتضيع فرصة الحب فأندم!
أعيش معك حالة لا توازن.. منذ عرفتك حياتي تسير بانتظام
فيما -قلبي- تسوده الفوضى
منذ عرفتك أحس أنني معجبة بك الى آخر حدود الإعجاب
فيك أشياء أحتاجها في هذا الزمن، وجدت فيك ماكان ينقصني ويُكمل بهاء روحي وصفاء عالمي ..
لكنني أخشى من النهايات دوماً! فأنا امرأة تعودت دائماً أن تفقد أي شيء تحبه
نحن عادة نستطيع أن نكبح جماح العاطفة في البدء، لكننا نعجز عنه في النهاية
وهذا مايجعلني أخاف كثيراً كثيراً
فعلمني كيف أحبك بلا ألم / وكيف لا أحبك بلا ندم .. !”
― Ahlam Mosteghanemi, quote from The Bridges of Constantine
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