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“I watched him spread out his arms with a smile before he crashed through the table in a beautiful crescendo, the glass sounding like tinkles from a piano as its shavings glittered across the floor and sliced through his face and body.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Slow Down

“After almost 70 years of being paralysed into silence by the Zionist venom — the accusation of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial — the world in general and the West in particular, have continued to tolerate Israel’s unrelenting arrogance, barbarity, and contemptuous disregard for international law including the UDHR. That venom has prevented condemnation of incalculable cheating, lying, stealing, murdering, and ruthless violation of the legal and natural human rights of the Palestinian people by a nation devoid of conscience, humanity, or any of the noble principles claimed by the religion which it claims to represent.”
― William Hanna, The Grim Reaper

“Can’t a lawyer take his client out to dinner to discuss the case? Haven’t you ever heard of the two-martini lunch?”
“Yes, but this is dinner,” she corrected.
“It’s the same thing. I looked it up in my Etiquette and Tax Deductions
for Lawyers handbook . . .”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal of Faith

“nights and days came and passed
and summer and winter
and the sun and the wind
and the rain.
and it was good to be a little island
a part of the world
and a world of its own
all surrounded by the bright blue sea.”
― Golden MacDonald, The Little Island

“You never fail until you quit trying.”
― Tom Sechrist

“Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“Marjorie, your lack of self-knowledge is fabulous. Being a Jew is your whole life. Good Lord, you don’t eat bacon. I’ve seen you shove it off your plate as though it were a dead mouse.” “Well, I can’t help that, it’s habit.” Noel shook”
― Herman Wouk, Marjorie Morningstar

“if my love were an ocean ,
There would be no more land.
If my love were a desert ,
You would see only sand.
If my love were a star-
Late at night, only light.
And if my love could grow wings ,
I'd be soaring in flight.”
― Jay Asher

“People are not who or where we think they are. And there is someone who watches from an unknown location”
― Michael Ondaatje, Warlight

“Sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmitted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck, The Child Who Never Grew

“Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“And for all I know he is sitting there still, under his favorite cork tree, smelling the flowers just quietly”
― Munro Leaf, The Story of Ferdinand

“We're accustomed to the older generation looking down on the younger and telling them that they know nothing of the world. But things are rather out of kilter now, aren't they? It is your generation who understands the inhumanity of man, not ours. It's boys like you who have to live with what you have seen and what you have done. You've become the generation of response. While your elders can only look in your direction and wonder.”
― John Boyne, The Absolutist

“Life is not a book. You can’t just set it down on the coffee table and walk away from it when it gets boring or you get tired.”
― Rebecca Wells, Little Altars Everywhere

“Flattery will get you nowhere. (In response to Wally George calling his band vile and evil.)”
― Nikolas Schreck

“Oblivion - what a blessing...for the mind to dwell a world away from pain.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“Wait. Let me guess. You’re giving me the cold shoulder, right?”
With that, she sighed. “Shouldn’t you be with your friends, staring at yourselves in the mirror?”
He laughed. “That’s funny. I’ll have to remember that.”
“I’m not being funny. I’m being serious.”
“Oh, because we’re so good-looking”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

“Don't mess with anybody on a Monday. It's a bad, bad day.”
― Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy

“I'm glad you're better," he said. His mouth sounded like it was almost in my hair, just above my my ear. "When I saw you fall..."
"You thought, 'Wow, she's a loser.”
― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

“عليك أن تجري تعديلات إذا ما كنت تريد النجاه. الكثير يصبح مستهلكاً, تحصل على سعادتك حيث يمكن. تصل إلى نقطه تكون فيها في قاع الجحيم, و مع ذلك تجلش متكاتفاً و ابتسامه تعلو وجهك, شاعراً أنك أكثر الناس حظاً على وجه البسيطه. لماذا؟ لأن ثمة سمكه صغيره ميته عند قدميك.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“It's not right. It hasn't been right, not since I met you.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart; my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had constructed to connect us.”
― Diane Setterfield

“You cannot “catch” anything unless you think you can, and thinking you can is inviting it to you with your thought. You are also inviting illness if you are listening to people talking about their illness. As you listen, you are giving all your thought and focus to illness, and when you give all of your thought to something, you are asking for it.”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret

“death,”
― Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country

“The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“In quoting others, we cite ourselves.”
― Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

“Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you? I am not afraid, I have been well brought forward by you...”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“She said there was comfort to be found in the permanence of mathematical truths, in the lack of arbitrariness and the absence of ambiguity. In knowing that the answers may be elusive, but they could be found. They were there, waiting, chalk scribbles away. “Nothing like life, in other words,” he said. “There, it’s questions with either no answers or messy ones.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“They fell asleep smiling. It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at five in the morning.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume