“There's the road to heaven, and there's the road to hell, and there? That's the road to Faerie.”
― Ellen Kushner, quote from Thomas the Rhymer
“It was strange to see that no matter what color the clothing first appeared—and they were all hues, from earthy copper and garnet to the blue of sky and shadow—in different light all turned to some shade of green, as if there were a third plane to the cloth’s weaving beyond the warp and weft.”
― Ellen Kushner, quote from Thomas the Rhymer
“She is all that is gracious, Her spirit is comely, The work of her hands is fair.”
― Ellen Kushner, quote from Thomas the Rhymer
“Totta puhuakseni en piittaa paljonkaan: hyvä tarina on hyvä tarina, tuli se mistä tahansa.”
― Ellen Kushner, quote from Thomas the Rhymer
“All the while he's been moving towards her, both stoat to rabbit and moth to flame. And she's staring at him, flame-bright and rabbit-scared, too brave to look away.”
― Ellen Kushner, quote from Thomas the Rhymer
“In the sleepless dark, all things are possible, the worst most likely, all darkness visible. There he lay, as near as comfort, as far as the other side of death, silent and far away in sleep.”
― Ellen Kushner, quote from Thomas the Rhymer
“Blood—” I rasped. “The earth cannot hold all the blood that’s shed on it. And so the stream flows below. We have passed through it now; soon it will be gone from you.”
― Ellen Kushner, quote from Thomas the Rhymer
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“If you call the day after, you’re maybe a bit desperate because, since the first day is out of the question, the second day is really the first day, so you’re calling on the first day. If they’re going to call, people call on the third day.”
― Nicci French, quote from Secret Smile
“Sometimes in life we don't realize how one simple action one single mistake will affect our future. - Rukaj”
― Richard Doetsch, quote from The 13th Hour
“Drugs are your friends, treat them with respect. You wouldn’t throw your friends in the garbage. You wouldn’t flush your friends down the toilet. If that’s the way you treat your friends or your drugs, you don’t deserve to have either. Give them to me.”
― George Alec Effinger, quote from When Gravity Fails
“If you want, I can carry you—”
“I’m fine,” she said shortly. “Let’s go.”
He’d said that wrong. He should have said, “I want to carry you.”
― Suzanne Brockmann, quote from Out of Control
“Однако пришло время сказать всю правду о сделке Фауста. Все нагло лгали по этому поводу, и больше всего и гениальнее всех – сам Гёте, чтобы, затуманив суть дела, скрыть жестокую правду. Скорее всего не нужно этого говорить, так как если я и не люблю чего-то делать, так это лишать людей надежды. И все же истинная трагедия Фауста заключается не в том, что он продал душу дьяволу. Настоящая трагедия в том, что нет никакого дьявола, чтобы купить вашу душу. Просто нет покупателя. Никто не поможет вам поймать последний мяч, какую бы цену вы за это ни предлагали. Конечно же, есть масса шарлатанов, объявляющих себя покупателями, и я не говорю, что с ними нельзя договориться так, чтобы извлечь некоторую выгоду. Можно. Это принесет вам успех, деньги, поклонение толпы. Но все это напрасный труд, и будь вы Микеланджело, Гёте, Моцарт, Толстой, Достоевский или Мальро, вы все равно умрете с чувством, что всю жизнь были простым бакалейщиком.
После вышесказанного я, конечно же, продолжаю упорствовать.”
― Romain Gary, quote from Promise at Dawn
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