“A story isn't a good one unless it has a good listener”
― Antonia Michaelis, quote from Tiger Moon
“The Rajah's handsome eunuch never guessed that she was telling him the tale of her own life.”
― Antonia Michaelis, quote from Tiger Moon
“Get in," he told Nitish.
"What, me?"
"No," said Farhad, "one of the other twenty-six white tigers waiting to cross the river.”
― Antonia Michaelis, quote from Tiger Moon
“You don't understand at all. It doesn't matter what's true and what's a fairy tale. That's not what matters. The dividing lines aren't as straight and simple as you think. - Raka”
― Antonia Michaelis, quote from Tiger Moon
“The salty fluid of life... the crystal-clear blood of the earth... That's what it is, Farhad. Tears. - Nitish”
― Antonia Michaelis, quote from Tiger Moon
Antonia Michaelis
Born place: Kiel, Germany
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“Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding. I am constantly filled with wonder at the number of things that other people do without any evident difficulty that are pretty much beyond me.”
― Bill Bryson, quote from I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
“The intense thereness of it-haecceity Sax had called it once, when John had asked him something about his religious beliefs-I believe in haecceity, Sax had said, in thisness, in here-and-nowness, in the particular individuality of every moment. That's why I want to know what is this? what is this? what is this? Now, remembering Sax's odd word and his odd religion, John finally understood him; because he was feeling the thisness of the moment like a rock in his hand, and it felt as if his entire life had been lived only to get him to this moment.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, quote from Red Mars
“اننا فخورون باننا لسنا خاضعين لاية قوة خارجية, واننا احرار في التعبير عن افكارنا ومشاعرنا ونحن نأخذ بثقة ان هذه الحرية تكاد تضمن على نحو تلقائي آلي فرديتنا. وعلى اية حال, فان حق التعبير عن افكارنا لا يعني شيئا الا اذا كان قادرين على ان تكون لنا افكار من انفسنا, ان التحرر من السلطة الخارجية هو مكسب اخير اذا ما كانت الظروف السيكولوجية الباطنية هي بشكل يمكننا من تأسيس تفرديتنا. فهل نحن حققنا ذلك الهدف او اننا على الاقل نقترب منه ؟”
― Erich Fromm, quote from Escape from Freedom
“That lifeline thing goes both ways, you know? Use it. Use him. He won’t break if you do … but you just might if you don’t.”
― K. Bromberg, quote from Crashed
“To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble.”
― Lew Wallace, quote from Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
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