“Like the whole range of other human emotions, it's just a matter of chemistry. We are all nothing but machines made of flesh.”
“I bambini non vedono la Morte. Perché la loro vita dura un giorno, da quando si svegliano a quando vanno a dormire.”
“God is silent. The devil whispers…”
“And you have to be careful with illusionists: sometimes evil deceives us by assuming the simplest form of things.”
“The dead would be buried, and over time everything would be absorbed. All that remained would be a vague memory in their souls, the waste left by an inevitable process of self-preservation.”
“Il Male alle volte ci inganna, assumendo la forma più semplice delle cose.”
“Li chiamiamo 'mostri' perché li sentiamo lontani da noi, perché li vogliamo diversi. Invece ci assomigliano in tutto e per tutto, ma noi preferiamo rimuovere l'idea che un mostro simile sia capace di tanto. E questo per assolvere la nostra natura.
Gli antropologi la definiscono 'spersonalizzazione del reo' e costituisce spesso il maggior ostacolo all'identificazione di un serial killer.
Perché un uomo ha dei punti deboli e può essere catturato.
Un mostro no.”
“Le stazioni sono una specie di antinferno, dove le anime che si sono perse si ammassano nell'attesa che qualcuno vada e riprenderle.”
“What?" she asked.
"You're beautiful."
She rolled her eyes. "Flattery will get you laid."
"I sure hope so.”
“Because it's easier to turn off worries in the dark.
Nick met his eyes in the darkness. "Yours or Mine?"
"Both.”
“She actually liked the idea that she might be made out of stars.”
“جهان عشق است و دیگر زرق سازی
همه بازی ست الا عشق بازی
فلک جز عشق محرابی ندارد
جهان بی خاک عشق آبی ندارد
غلام عشق شو اندیشه این است
همه صاحبدلان را پیشه این است
دلی کز عشق خالی شد فسرده ست
گرش صد جان بُوَد بی عشق مرده ست
مبین در عقل کان سلطان جان است
قدم در عشق نه کان جان ِ جان است
ز سوز عشق خوش تر در جهان نیست
که بی او گل نخندید، ابر نگریست
طبایع جز کشش کاری ندارند
حکیمان این کشش را عشق خوانند
گر اندیشه کنی از راه بینش
به عشق است ایستاده آفرینش
چو من بی عشق خود را جان ندیدم
دلی بفروختم، جانی خریدم
کمر بستم به عشق این داستان را
صلای عشق در دادم جهان را”
“Dan was shorter than me, especially as I was wearing sky blue silk stilettos. He appeared to be my age or a few years older,stocky, and thick necked with swirling tattoos just visible beneath the blue collar of his uniform.Dan gave me a plain once over as he walked me to an elevator and placed his palm against a glass screen. The screen retracted to reveal keypad. Dan then punched in a series of numbers and he said- “You’re very big.”I gave him a cursory smile, “Yes. I ate all my vegetables as a child.”
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