“When it comes to misfortune, we are all selfish at heart, offering up the same prayers: not me, not mine. Not yet.”
― Simon Beckett, quote from Written in Bone
“Kiedy los nam nie sprzyja, w głębi serca wszyscy jesteśmy egoistami i wszyscy wznosimy te same modły: tylko nie ja, tylko nie ja, jeszcze nie teraz.”
― Simon Beckett, quote from Written in Bone
“Historia naszego życia, a czasem i śmierci, jest zapisana w kościach.”
― Simon Beckett, quote from Written in Bone
“Jeśli zmarli żyją dalej, to tylko w naszych umysłach i sercach.”
― Simon Beckett, quote from Written in Bone
“Our lives, and sometimes deaths, are stories written in bone.”
― Simon Beckett, quote from Written in Bone
“Z morderstwem jest jak z życiem; i jedno, i drugie jest nieprzewidywalne.”
― Simon Beckett, quote from Written in Bone
“Are you your daddy's boy? Her question was like a stab in the Heart, because, at the end of the day,yes, he was. He was just like his Dad, and one day blood would tell.”
― R.J. Scott, quote from The Heart of Texas
“Diane used to joke that I was getting in touch with my own inner asshole, but all I was really doing was claiming my American birthright. There's a sales professional lying dormant in each and every one of us, just waiting for a chance to blossom.”
― Tom Perrotta, quote from Election
“From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away.”
― Raymond Chandler, quote from The High Window
“A great sadness welled up in Magnus at the sight of him. It was human to age and die, and Jem stood outside that humanity now, outside the light that burned so brightly and so briefly. It was cold outside that light and fire. No one had greater cause to know that cold than Magnus did.”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from The Midnight Heir
“جلس الرجل على حجر ليشعر بالسعادة ويتأمل كل شيء، بعد أن فعل كل ما يُفترض فعله فكّر أن السعادة طويلة ومرهقة قليلاً. لم يستطع لمسها ولم يجد وظيفة ليديه.
لم يكن يحتاج إلى شيء ولا شيء كان يبدو في حاجة إليه. فشعر أنه وحيد.”
― Gioconda Belli, quote from Infinity in the Palm of Her Hand: A Novel of Adam and Eve
BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.
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