Jay Richbourg > Jay's Quotes

“Rudy? You can’t take the stairs. We’re having dinner on the 71st floor.”
“It’s okay, Boss. I can walk up.”
― Behcet Kaya, Murder in Buckhead

“Like a gloomy and sinister paradox since its apparition until now, socialism suffered terrible and terrifying metamorphoses. With the name of the most human doctrine—Socialism—the most ominous and naughty crimes against humanity were done. The National Socialism of Hitler created Auschwitz and Majdanek and the People’s socialism of Stalin — Gulag and Kolima! And both of them buried more than fifty million people! That’s monstrous!”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

“Routine had become rhythm. Rhythm had become identity.”
― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: The Prequel

“I will accept any amount of monsters my mind wants to give me, but I will not become a monster myself.”
― Marissa Meyer, Stars Above

“Don’t kill yourself on the fence, Clara,” the woman urged her. “If you do that, you’ll never know what happened to you.” It has always been the most powerful of answers to give to the intending suicide. Kill yourself and you’ll never find out how the plot ends. Clara did not have any vivid interest in the plot. But somehow the answer was adequate. She turned around. When she got back to her barracks, she felt more troubled than when she’d set out to look for the fence. But her Cracow friend had—by her reply—somehow cut her off from suicide as an option.”
― Thomas Keneally, Schindler's List

“Be honest with yourself.
The world is not honest with you.
When you are honest with yourself
you find the road to inner peace”
― Paramahansa Yogananda

“Becoming a team didn’t mean the end of their arguments. But it did mean that the arguments became a part of the adventure, became discussions not threats. To an outsider the arguments would appear to be the same because feeling like part of a team is something that happens invisibly. You might call it caring. You could even call it love.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler

“All right. Permission granted. But keep it very quiet indeed. Keep me posted. And try not to start a war. There is a man across the Pond who wants the Nobel Peace Prize.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Fox

“It's not that I don't believe you," Peter managed. "I'm sorry. It's just that...it's only a story."
"Perhaps." She shrugged. "And perheps someday someone will say those very words about you, Peter. What do you say to that?”
― Justin Cronin, The Passage