“How is San Francisco, Alex? Lovely city. Will you leave your heart there? Do you think it's a good place to die?”
― James Patterson, quote from Violets Are Blue
“The cell phone in my pocket went off. Shit! Damn it! Why do I carry these infernal gadgets? Why does anybody in their right mind need to constantly be on call?”
― James Patterson, quote from Violets Are Blue
“Human existence must be a kind of error. It is bad today and every day it will get worse, until the worst of all happens.” My own philosophy was a little cheerier than Schopenhauer’s,”
― James Patterson, quote from Violets Are Blue
“If you are lucky you will find something you love, if youre really lucky youll find someone to pay you for it”
― James Patterson, quote from Violets Are Blue
“If you are lucky you will find something you love doing, if you're really lucky you'll find someone to pay you to do it”
― James Patterson, quote from Violets Are Blue
“Total paranoia is just total awareness.”
― James Patterson, quote from Violets Are Blue
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“A young Latin guy with thick shoulders and dull eyes came out when I stopped, as if he had been waiting. “You the magazine guy?” The magazine guy. “That’s right. Elvis Cole. I have a ten o’clock with Ms. Morales.” “I gotta unlock the gate. See the empty spot where it says Delivery? Park there. You might want to put up the top and lock it.” “Think it’ll be safe?” That would be me, flashing the ironic smile at their overkill battlestar security. “For sure. They only steal clean cars.” That would be him, putting me in my place. He shook his head sadly as I drove past. “I”
― Robert Crais, quote from Taken
“I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color-line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls. From out the caves of the evening that swing between the strong-limbed earth and the tracery of the stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius... and they come all graciously with no scorn nor condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the Veil.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, quote from The Souls of Black Folk
“Si las revoluciones no se hacen con palabras, las ideas no se implantan con decretos.”
― Octavio Paz, quote from The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
“I chanced the chest and the slow-beating heart. The quick compulsion of my will was rewarded. I no longer had chest nor heart. I was only a mind, a soul, a consciousness—call it what you will—incorporate in a nebulous brain that, while it still centered inside my skull, was expanded, and was continuing to expand, beyond my skull.”
― Jack London, quote from The Star Rover
“Cuando hay nubes es como si el mundo tuviera una capa de lana. Se está más calentito y eso.”
― Annabel Pitcher, quote from Ketchup Clouds
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