Louis Sachar · 195 pages
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“Sometimes people can learn a lot about each other just by sitting in silence.”
― Louis Sachar, quote from There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom
“He understood it when other kids were mean to him. It didn't bother him. He simply hated them. As long as he hated them, it didn't matter what they thought of him.”
― Louis Sachar, quote from There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom
“How can he be your friend if you don't like him?”
― Louis Sachar, quote from There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom
“He sat at his desk – last seat, last row – and looked at the chart on the wall next to him. Of course there was no gold star next to his name. He had already done three things wrong: First, he had knocked over a girl and made her cry. Second, he was late getting back to class. And third and worst of all, his name was Bradley Chalkers. As long as his name was Bradley Chalker's, he'd never get a gold star. They don't give gold stars to monsters.”
― Louis Sachar, quote from There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom
“The noise kept up and did not stop. My head rang. I saw Shepherd take the chewing gum from his mouth, break it into two, and stick it in both ears. He kept working.”
― Kenneth Oppel, quote from Starclimber
“Ljudi su tople, tvrdoglave, sebeljubive životinje! Ljudi uglavnom žive u vonju svog vlastitog isparivanja, i dok uživaju u svom vlastitom gnjiležu, sve, što je od bližnjega gnjilo, to im smrdi.”
― Miroslav Krleža, quote from The Return of Philip Latinowicz
“Man has free will and creates his destiny based upon his actions.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from The Rozabal Line
“The bigger the lie, apparently, the more likely the uninformed were to accept it,”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
“Only a man who knows nothing of motors talks of motoring without petrol; only a man who knows nothing of reason talks of reasoning without strong, undisputed first principles.”
― G.K. Chesterton, quote from The Innocence of Father Brown
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