Jaye Bantug > Jaye's Quotes

“This sounds admirable! I do so much admire what you are doing. Using this wonderful old house.”
― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: A story of love, lies, fear and kindness

“This book is dedicated to my children, Pi, Coco, and Jay. When your grandkids are old enough to read this book, tell them how much I loved you.”
― J.K. Franko, Eye for Eye

“The owner of the Post Office was called Maurice. A sixtyish-year-old with a large red nose that was pebble-dashed with broken capillaries, and a smooth bald head with a fuzz of grey hair around the side like the tide mark on a dirty bath. He had a gruff manner, distrusting eyes and a cough like kicked gravel.”
― R.D. Ronald

“Boss? It’s not a joke.” Rudy’s voice had an edge to it. “The Colonel has been poisoned. It says arsenic. The prognosis is extremely poor.”
― Behcet Kaya, Deception: A Jack Ludefance Novel

“Fuck off.”
― Richelle Mead, Frostbite

“— Говорю тебе, сеньорита Стиви, — в джунглях в своих странствиях я видел, есть крестьяне, что живут рядом с логовами и охотничьими землями тигров. Некоторые из этих тигров убивают людей — некоторые нет. Никто не знает, почему. Но все знают, что тигры, которые убивают, должны умереть, — потому что раз напившись крови человека, они не могут от нее отвыкнуть.”
― Caleb Carr, The Angel of Darkness

“incapacity for true dialogue implies an incapacity for tolerance, self-reflection and empathy.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“A hairbrush is not a gun.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“Няма нищо по-опасно от жена, която харесва всичко. Какво трябва да направи тогава един мъж, за да харесва само него?”
― Erich Maria Remarque

“And professionalism is remembering that if you speak at all, you will speak the truth.”
― Mark C. Zauderer, Counsel, the Courtroom Is Open: Lessons from More Than a Half-Century in Law and Life

“The bar staff and croupiers all wore black with the same green triangle logo emblazoned on their shirts, and contact lenses which made their eyes shine an eerie, vibrant green. The bar optics glowed with the same green light, the intensity of which was linked to the music. As the bartender walked away to fetch the drinks, a breakdown in the techno track commenced and the bottles began to palpitate. The bartender's eyes glowed with a hallucinatory felinity that made Mangle feel nervous.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

“In the case of our bodies, we cannot sew on additional organs or devices, but people can easily use the existing ‘standard equipment’ of their body, which is ‘delivered as standard from the manufacturer’ but which has huge built-in capabilities for ‘upgrading.”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

“But nothing. This is real life, and you’re untrained in the art and science of surveillance and countermeasures. They have guns, and you have a law degree”
― Chad Boudreaux, Mob Justice: A Scavenger Hunt Thriller

“The garden works better when you look for plant cooperation instead of plant competition.”
― Charles Dowding, Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests

“Anywhere I go, I figure I belong.”
― Chitra Nawbatt, The CodeBreaker Mindset: The Unwritten Rules for Success

“Genius is measured not by static volume but by kinetic vision.”
― Rich DiSilvio

“cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”
― Oliver Sacks, Gratitude

“No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of Adolf Hitler. The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it.”
― William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

“It was going to be a beautiful morning, I remember thinking, as I left the house; soft and close, bursting with whispered promises, as only a daybreak in early summer can be.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“It's like when my doctor told me the story of these two brothers whose dad was a bad alcoholic. One brother grew up to be a successful carpenter and never drank. The other brother ended up being a drinker as bad as his dad was. When they asked the first brother why he didn't drink, he said that after he saw what it did to his father, he could never bring himself to even try it. When they asked the other brother, he said that he guessed he learned how to drink on his father's knee. So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“—if a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don’t think, ‘oh, I love this picture because it’s universal.’ ‘I love this painting because it speaks to all mankind.’ That’s not the reason anyone loves a piece of art. It’s a secret whisper from an alleyway. Psst, you. Hey kid. Yes you.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“And dimly she realised one of the great laws of the human soul: that when the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, which does not kill the body, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers. But this is only appearance. It is really only the mechanism of the resumed habit. Slowly, slowly the wound to the soul begins to make itself felt, like a bruise, which only slowly deepens its terrible ache, till it fills all the psyche. And when we think we have recovered and forgotten, it is then that the terrible after-effects have to be encountered at their worst.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover