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“No m’lord. It wouldn’t be a secret army if we had seen it. My squire, who has not had the opportunity to be clearly informed about the presence of a secret army, has been ignorant of its existence.”
― Gary Edward Gedall

“Although Chief Nalte and the Pythoness Cardea had been discrete about the mishap, I could see by the nodding and murmuring ascending the amphitheatre, row by row, that news of the concern over the girls’ disappearance was spreading.”
― Isabeau Vollhardt, The Casebook of Elisha Grey

“For the thousandth time, Nathan wondered why you didn’t need some kind of basic parenting skills certificate to have kids.”
― Barry Kirwan, When the children come

“Writers create impressions that inspire, stir emotions, evoke questions and sprinkle seeds of awe.”
― C. Toni Graham

“With all this talk about taking my life, why have I never attempted it? Answer: I have an overwhelming desire to live.”
― Larry Godwin, Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass

“I told you she was doing all four of 'em.”
― Kyle Keyes, Under the Bus

“Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something.”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
― Oscar Wilde

“When in doubt, just spit it out. That all challenges can be overcome by speaking the truth, no matter how itcomes out.”
― Dan Brown, Deception Point

“They had never had a nice teacher. They were terribly afraid of nice teachers.”
― Louis Sachar, Sideways Stories from Wayside School

“As I read, however, I applied much personally to my own feelings and condition. I found myself similar, yet at the same time strangely unlike to the beings concerning whom I read, and to whose conversation I was a listener. I sympathized with, and partly understood them, but I was unformed in mind, I was dependent on none, and related to none . . . and there was none to lament my annihilation . . . what did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

“If life is a prison, then there is a moment in a person’s life when she realizes exactly where her walls are located, where the boundaries to her freedom lie. Whether there are walls, or possible escape routes.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Old Dreams Die: Stories

“You never know when somebody will pull you to them.”
― Charles Frazier, Thirteen Moons

“Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they’ve learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.”
― Greg Mortenson, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time

“A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“You must learn to respect," Papa said.

But I do not respect her," I said.

Papa paused for a moment, and patted my leg. "Then you must learn to hide your disrespect.”
― Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name

“Solving large, difficult problems may earn you a reputation for skillful negotiation, but Sun Tzu asserts that this supposed achievement is actually a form of failure, and having true wisdom means preventing difficult problems from arising in the first place. Ironically,”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

“She had suffered longer, and she had suffered more. Each second was agony in the first weeks. She was like an amputee in the days before anesthesia, half crazed with pain, astounded that the human body could feel so much and not die of it. But slowly, cell by painful cell, she began to mend. There came a time when it was no longer her whole body that burned with pain but only her heart. And then there came a time when even her heart was able, for a time at least, to feel other emotions besides grief... she learned how to exist apart.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“You can't love anything more than something you miss.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“John – tell me, are we lost?”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

“...y se corría a ochenta kilómetros por hora hacia las luces que crecían poco a poco, sin que ya se supiera bien por qué tanto apuro, por qué esa carrera en la noche entre autos desconocidos donde nadie sabía nada de los otros, donde todo el mundo miraba fijamente hacia adelante, exclusivamente hacia adelante.”
― Julio Cortázar, Todos los fuegos el fuego

“-Peki bundan sonra ne olacak? Nereye gidiyoruz? Cennet diye bir yer yok mu?
-Hayır Jonathan öyle bir yer yok. O ne bir yer, ne de bir zaman. Cennet, kendinde kusursuzluğu bulmaktır.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull