Junior Sroczynski > Junior's Quotes

“Death rides on all of our shoulders from the day we are born.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

“Lying is a delightful thing for it leads to the truth.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“...I will shed no more tears, like a spoilt child. For whatever happens we have had what we have had. No one can take that from us. And I have been alive, who was never alive before.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“That’s the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

“...we must remember that we all make the things of this earth of value because of labor.”
― Carson McCullers

“In seventy years, I’ve never told a blessed soul.”
― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

“If you love her," I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.”
― Jane Smiley

“Either you have me or not at all. Either you love me or not at all. Either I am all yours or I am nobody’s. I will have no half-measures with you.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

“Como se acostumbra en tales casos, el peral fue acusado de asesinato y sentenciado a ser desarraigado y quemado.

(Ante la asfixia de Drusilo habiéndosele quedado una pera atravesada en la garganta)”
― Robert Graves

“You are no failure, on a river. The water moves regardless - for all it cares, you might be a minnow or a tadpole, a turtle on a beavered log. You might be nothing at all.”
― Leif Enger, So Brave, Young, and Handsome

“Trump created a brand that is entirely amoral. On the campaign trail, Trump was able to shrug off almost every conventional “gotcha.” Caught dodging federal taxes? That’s just being “smart.” Wouldn’t reveal his tax returns? Who’s going to make him? He was only half joking on the campaign trail when he said, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters.” In Trump’s world, impunity, even more than lots of gold, is the ultimate signifier of success.”
― Naomi Klein, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need