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“What am I doing here? The same thing all of you men are: getting prepared for the final war with the Empians.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“A different vantage point gives us new information, and with that information we can begin to change our approach.”
― Steve Pemberton, The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World

“I hear workplace hookups are really in right now.”
I laughed. “Something tells me they’ve been in for a long time.”
He took the exit for the Arts District. “This chick sounds like she’s got you sprung.”
I took a deep breath. “Lust will do that.”
“Can’t have love without lust, man.”
― J.J. Sorel, A Taste of Peace

“A good sailor weathers the storm he cannot avoid, and avoids the storm he cannot weather.”
― J.K. Franko, Eye for Eye

“I can smack a ball-bearing between your abusive fiancé’s eyes before his wingtips hit the sidewalk.”
― M.S.M. Barkawitz

“You piece of shit, you need a wife; a woman’s touch in your life.’ But who would marry someone like me? Being a PI isn’t exactly the best profession to be in to attract a wife. I’ve read about too many investigators and policemen who end up divorced and I certainly fall into that category.”
― Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate

“Don't leave me, Jack, I said.
Not ever, he whispered back.”
― Nancy E. Turner, These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, Arizona Territories

“از همه اندوهگین تر کسی است که از همه بیشتر می خندد”
― ژان پل سارتر / Jean-Paul Sartre

“The world is full of power and energy and a person can go far by just skimming off a tiny bit of it.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“She tells her love while half asleep,
In the dark hours,
With half-words whispered low:
As Earth stirs in her winter sleep
And puts out grass and flowers
Despite the snow,
Despite the falling snow.”
― Robert Graves

“Una vez que me fueron leídos, se me propuso que jurase su cumplimiento, primero a la usanza de mi propio país y luego según el procedimiento descrito por las leyes de allá, y que consistió en sostenerme en alto el pie derecho con la mano izquierda, al tiempo que me colocaba el dedo medio de la mano derecha en la coronilla y el pulgar en la punta de la oreja derecha.”
― Jonathan Swift, Los viajes de Gulliver