“Will this generation be able to turn things around and learn a valuable lesson from all of this? I hope so, but I have my doubts. The damage has been done. And as a lifelong student of history, it's quite evident that human beings don't learn from the mistakes of past generations.”
― quote from Voluntary
“No fucking popcorn? No Junior Mints?”
― quote from Voluntary
“I want that little blonde bitch in the lobby to hear me screaming your name.”
― quote from Voluntary
“You say ‘love’ too easily, Kepler."
“No, not really–please don’t call me that. The idea that love has to be a blazing romantic thing of monogamous stability is innately ludicrous. You loved your parents, perhaps, because they were the warmth you could flee to. You loved your first childhood crush with a passion that made your lips tingle, your flesh grow light in their presence. You loved your wife with the steadiness of an ocean against the shore; your lover with the blaze of a shooting star, your best friend with the confidence of a mountain. Love is a many-splendoured thing, as the old song says.”
― Claire North, quote from Touch
“Don't talk rot, Whitney," said Rainsford. "You're a big-game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels?”
― Richard Connell, quote from The Most Dangerous Game
“I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.”
― Anaïs Nin, quote from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
“Sempre vos ouço dizer que o Amor é cego, no sentido de que ele não consegue ver defeitos no amado. Essa espécie de cegueira é o máximo da visão. Pudésseis vós ser sempre tão cegos que não notásseis defeitos em coisa alguma. Não! Claro e penetrante é o olho do Amor, por isso ele não vê defeitos. Quando o Amor houver purgado vossa visão, não vereis nada que não seja digno de vosso amor. Somente um olho defeituoso e podado de Amor está sempre ocupado em encontrar defeitos, e quaisquer faltas que encontre, são somente as suas próprias.”
― Mikhail Naimy, quote from The Book of Mirdad: The Strange Story of a Monastery Which Was Once Called the Ark
“The tears came into Christiana’s eyes,”
― quote from Little Pilgrim's Progress: From John Bunyan's Classic
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