“Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?”
― Andrew Clements, quote from Things Not Seen
“But fear doesn't need doors and windows. It works from the inside.”
― Andrew Clements, quote from Things Not Seen
“Watch TV or something." That's what the note says.
So I say to myself, Fine. But I think I'll do the "or something" part.”
― Andrew Clements, quote from Things Not Seen
“It's about 65 degrees, so it feels like when the air conditioner is up on high. I can bear it, so I'm going for a walk. Today. Right now. In the sunshine. Because I can.
Because I want to. Because I'm not going to just sit around and wait for stuff to happen anymore. I'm still me, and I have a life. It's a weird life, but it's still mine.
It's still mine.”
― Andrew Clements, quote from Things Not Seen
“And then I see what she means. Because I did have to tell her, just like she had to tell me all of this. I had to trust her. Sometimes you have to tell someone else what it's like. Because if you don't, you'll go nuts.”
― Andrew Clements, quote from Things Not Seen
“We both hang up, but it's like there's still a connection. I can feel it.
And it feels good.”
― Andrew Clements, quote from Things Not Seen
“Only once. She called, asked could we send her two thousand dollars—two thousand more than the four she already stole when she left.”
― Andrew Clements, quote from Things Not Seen
“Aha. The mom doesn’t know. She’s fishing. This next part has to be just right, or I’m blacklisted by the mother and hated by the daughter. The first would be an inconvenience; the second would be a tragedy.”
― Andrew Clements, quote from Things Not Seen
“There's a strength in the way she carries herself, but she never seems to relax, never lets down her guard.”
― Andrew Clements, quote from Things Not Seen
“and he sees me seeing him see me. Anyway,”
― Andrew Clements, quote from Things Not Seen
Andrew Clements
Born place: in Camden, New Jersey, The United States
Born date January 1, 1949
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“If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from Blood Promise
“It’s a shame that people all over the world can’t have that kind of love in their hearts,” he said. “There would be no wars, slaughter, or murder; no greed or selfishness. It would be the kind of world that God wants us to have—a wonderful world.”
― Wilson Rawls, quote from Where the Red Fern Grows
“contempt for himself that a small piece of land should seem so important. Why, when he had poured out his silver proudly before the agent the man had scraped it up carelessly in his hands and said, “Here is enough for a few days of opium for the old lady, at any rate.” And the wide difference that still lay between him and the great house seemed suddenly impassable as the moat full of”
― Pearl S. Buck, quote from The Good Earth
“Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch her—doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there.”
― Thomas Hardy, quote from Tess of the D'Urbervilles
“إن ما تشعرون به من الألم هو انكسار القشرة التي تغلف إدراككم . وكما أن القشرة الصلدة التي تحجب الثمرة يجب أن تتحطم حتى يبرز قلبها من ظلمة الأرض إلى نور الشمس .. هكذا أنتم أيضاً .. يجب أن تحطم الآلام قشوركم قبل أن تعرفوا معنى الحياة .. لأنكم لو استطعتم أن تعيروا عجائب حياتكم اليومية حقها من التأمل والدهشة لما كنتم ترون ألامكم أقل غرابة من أفراحكم .. أنتم مخيرون في الكثير من آلامكم .. وهذا الكثير من آلامكم هو الجرعة الشديدة المرارة التي بواسطتها يَشفي الطبيب الحكيم الساهر في أعماقكم أسقام نفوسكم البشرية ..”
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Prophet
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