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“On the Acropolis, he’d thought she’d seen too much sun for a woman but in the courtyard, under the moon, her face, neck, and arms were as pale as the moon goddess. Allowing himself to imagine it was the moon goddess leading him upward was a way of climbing to the second story.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

“Charlie said your friend’s disappeared,” chirped Wendy.
“No, he hasn’t.” Adam denied it. “He’s in the house. Now, look, what’s all this you’ve been telling them?”
“Nothing, I haven’t told them anything.” Charlie looked drunk.
“He said you’ve turned your friend into a crayfish,” insisted Wendy.
“He’s always making little jokes like that, and you fell for it. How am I supposed to do that, for heaven’s sake?” Adam was angry.
“With your little book you found. What’s that under your arm?”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“And for its part, what was life? Was it perhaps only an infectious disease of matter—just as the so-called spontaneous generation of matter was perhaps only an illness, a cancerous stimulation of the immaterial?”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

“عندما يشك الإنسان دون أدنى خجل بسلطة الله والكنيسة
وعندما يلوك الإنسان سمعته الملكية التي أقرها الرب وشخصية الملك المقدسة وكأن الأمور قابلة بكل بساطة للتبديل كما الصور في الألبوم بحيث يختار المرء حسب مشيئته وعندما يصل الأمر بالإنسان أخيرا إلى حد الزعم بإمكانية الاستغناء عن الرب الكلي القدرة في كل ما يتعلق بالنظام والأخلاق والسعادة على الأرض واعتبار هذه وبمنتهى الجدية صادرة عن الأخلاق الفطرية والعقل الفطري البشري معاذ الله معاذ الله ، عندما تصل الأمور إلى هذا الحد لا حاجة للمرء أن يتعجب من انقلاب كل شيء رأسا على عقب ومن تدهور الأخلاق إلى ما لا حد له.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“Quite often there is a regular conniption going on. It takes years to make a good translation of this secondary soundtrack and as a small child I could only define it as friendly or otherwise. For camouflage reasons this is often sufficient.”
― Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One: The iconic novel from the multimillion-copy bestselling author

“Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs and a separated shoulder, feeling like, well, he'd jumped off the New Brunswick train bridge.”
― Junot Diaz

“She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

“There is no hate such as that born out of love betrayed”
― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic