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“Unconditional Love conquers all!”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer God is the Cure

“I'll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.”
― Bill Watterson

“Vera had also hated lipstick, Marzipan and Lutherans - excluding her husband, but not her late mother-in-law. Most of all she hated being governed by anyone or anything.”
― Victoria Dougherty, The Bone Church

“How could I not love him, after that? That is not to say that I approved of all he did, or much enjoyed the company of the man that he became... but every little girl needs a big brother to protect her. Tywin was big even when he was little.” She gave a sigh. “Who will protect us now?”
Jaime kissed her cheek. “He left a son.”
“Aye, he did. That is what I fear the most, in truth.”
That was a queer remark. “Why should you fear?”
“Jaime,” she said, tugging on his ear, “sweetling, I have known you since you were a babe at Joanna’s breast. You smile like Gerion and fight like Tyg, and there’s some of Kevan in you, else you would not wear that cloak... but Tyrion is Tywin’s son, not you. I said so once to your father’s face, and he would not speak to me for half a year. Men are such thundering great fools. Even the sort who come along once in a thousand years.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“You're not a Quaker, Jeremy. I happen to know you put beer on your cornflakes.”
― Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations

“Lice breeds lice, and sin breeds sin.”
― Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice

“I have had the best day ever more times that I can remember. So yes,
I believe I am ready to die if that is what is needed to live as I want to.”
― Hendri Coetzee, Living the Best Day Ever

“I wanted to thank you for saving my life. I am still puzzled about your motives
though. Was it revenge against Zedan for rejecting you?”
“You insult me. It seems that you think of everybody in the same lowly terms you
think of yourself. If there is anybody I should hate for Zedan rejecting me, it should be
you. He was only doing what is expected of him in our society.”
“You mean you don't hate me?” This was a new revelation to Brown. It worried him.
He was used to hate, he could deal with it, but this he could not understand, he had used
the girl ruthlessly and yet she did not hate him.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

“ pretty is as pretty does ”
― Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

“You must believe me when I believe, and not when I doubt.”
― Edmond Rostand, Chantecler

“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught. The library, on the other hand, has no biases. The information is all there for you to interpret. You don’t have someone telling you what to think. You discover it for yourself.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Jackson,”
― Founding Fathers, The United States Constitution

“In all my years here, no one’s been able to remember my name when I’m introduced. No one has bothered. They usually see us as types, not as individuals.” His”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

“In His will, our peace.”
― Dante Alighieri

“#metooasachild”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

“Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul, and that was why she ignored us kids when we cried. Fussing over children who cry only encouraged them, she told us. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“Beware: forget the reworking of characters. Obviously, the time-span is short. The first three parts, in any case, will only cover a period of three years. As for the last two, well that’s God’s secret and what I wouldn’t give to know it.”
― Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française

“But she had to go to bed first, and all night she slept soundly on her bed of hay, dreaming of nothing but of shining mountains with red roses all over them, among which happy little Snowflake went leaping in and out.”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi

“Alltäglichkeit deckt sich nicht mit Primitivität. Alltäglichkeit ist vielmehr ein Seinsmodus des Daseins auch dann und gerade dann, wenn sich das Dasein in einer hochentwickelten und differenzierten Kultur bewegt. [s. 50]

Das Seiende sind wir je selbst. Das Sein dieses Seienden ist je meines. Im Seienden verhält sich dieses selbst zu seinem Sein. Als Seiendes dieses Seins ist es seinem eigenen Sein überantwortet. Das Sein ist es, darum es diesem Seienden je selbst geht. [s. 41]

Das Seiende, dem es in seinem Sein um dieses selbst geht, verhält sich zu seinem Sein als seiner eigensten Möglichkeit. Dasein ist je seine Möglichkeit und es »hat« sie nicht nur noch eigenschaftlich als ein Vorhandenes. Und weil Dasein wesenhaft je seine Möglichkeit ist, kann dieses Seiende in seinem Sein sich selbst »wählen«, gewinnen, es kann sich verlieren, nie und nur »scheinbar« gewinnen. Verloren haben kann es sich nur und noch nicht sich gewonnen haben kann es nur, sofern es seinem Wesen nach mögliches eigentliches, das heißt sich zueigen ist. [s. 42]

Das Dasein ist ein Seiendes, das nicht nur unter anderem Seienden vorkommt. Dasein versteht sich in irgendeiner Weise und Ausdrücklichkeit in seinem Sein. Seinsverständnis ist selbst eine Seinsbestimmheit des Daseins. [s. 12]

Seiendes kann ein innerhalb der Welt vorhandenes Seiendes nur berühren, wenn es von Hause aus die Seinsart des In-Seins hat – wenn mit seinem Da-sein schon so etwas wie Welt ihm entdeckt ist, aus der her Seiendes in der Berührung sich offenbaren kann, um so in seinem Vorhandensein zugänglich zu werden. Zwei Seiende, die innerhalb der Welt vorhanden und überdies an ihnen selbst weltlos sind, können sich nie »berühren«, keines kann »bei« dem andern »sein«. Mit dieser möglichen Auffassung des »Daseins« als eines Vorhandenen und nur noch Vorhandenen darf aber nicht eine dem Dasein eigene Weise von »Vorhandenheit« zusammengeworfen werden. [s. 55]

…das vorthematische Seiende das angesetzt, das im umweltlichen Besorgen sich zeigt. [s. 67]

Zeichen ist ein Zeug, das ein Zeugganzes ausdrücklich in die Umsicht hebt, so daß sich in eins damit die Weltmäßigkeit des Zuhandenen meldet. Im Anzeichen und Vorzeichen »zeigt sich«, was kommt, aber nicht im Sinne eines nur Vorkommenden, das zu dem schon Vorhandenen hinzukommt,. das »was kommt« ist solches, darauf wir uns gefaßt machen, »nicht gefaßt waren«, sofern wir uns mit anderem befaßten. Am Rückzeichen wird umsichtig zugänglich, was sich zugetragen und abgespielt. Das Merkzeichen zeigt, »woran« man jeweils ist. Die Zeichen zeigen primär immer das, »worin« man lebt, wobei das Besorgen sich aufhält, welche Bewandtnis es damit hat. [s. 80]”
― Martin Heidegger

“Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, Literature Guide: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

“Every night I dream a lot. Every day I live a little.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“Okay, sure, he’s a great fucking guy,” Michaels didn’t try to hide his frustration. “Except for the killing everybody part.”
― William Kely McClung, Black Fire

“He walked that night across the beach and back again, Titan running free and barking and playing with the cold waves. He walked with his brother. He walked with his aunt. He walked with his uncle. He walked with that girl he liked, the one he never knew, and her cat. He walked with his father and his mother. He walked with his sister and her husband, and their children. It was all in his head, that endless walk of naked feet against the sand. He walked alone until the water hit against the wall and the drizzle was the sea and the wind and his dream of staying home.”
― Daniel Cuervonegro, Sins of the Maker

“She polished her words like smooth river rocks lying perfectly organized in brilliant rainbow shades under crystal clear, slow moving water.”
― John Payton Foden, Magenta

“Yamamoto was considered, both in Japan and the United States, as intelligent, capable, aggressive, and dangerous. Motivated by his skill as a poker player and casino gambler, he was continually calculating odds on an endless variety of options. He played bridge and chess better than most good players. Like most powerful leaders he was articulate and persuasive, and once in a position of power he pushed his agenda relentlessly. Whether he would push his odds successfully in the Pacific remained to be seen.”
― Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

“You have just dined,” Emerson once wrote, “and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”
― Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

“Off the bike she was like a smoker without cigarettes, never sure what to do with her hands. As soon as she got off the bike, her heart was expected to perform all these baffling secondary functions like loving someone and feeling something and belonging somewhere - when all she'd ever trained it to do was pump blood.”
― Chris Cleave, Gold

“من خوشحالم که خودم هستم
زیرا شبیه تو نیستم
تو هم خوشحال باش که خودت هستی
چون اصلا شبیه من نیستی
برای همین است که می توانیم با هم دوست باشیم
و چه خوب دوستی دوتا آدم مثل ما
که اصلا شبیه هم نیستند
اما همدیگر رو دوست دارند...”
― Shel Silverstein

“Oh oh!” said the
mother bird. “My baby
will be here! He will
want to eat.”
― P.D. Eastman, Are You My Mother?

“THE WASHINGTON POST headline across page one in its editions of Wednesday, January 21, 1998, was shocking: “Clinton Accused of Urging Aide to Lie.” Bill had spent a tense night and early morning on the phone with Vernon Jordan, Bob Bennett, Bruce Lindsey, David Kendall, and Betty Currie, talking about the story and trying to keep his legal ducks aligned. Hillary said later he nudged her awake just after 7 A.M. and sat on the edge of their bed. “You’re not going to believe this,” she quoted him telling her, but there were “news reports” blanketing the Internet and airwaves as well, that he had had an affair with a young White House intern named Monica Lewinsky and had asked her to lie about it to Paula Jones’s lawyers.”
― Carl Bernstein, A Woman in Charge