Sol Carol > Sol's Quotes

“I’m fucking asking you!” The man stood his ground.
From the corner of his eye Adam could see the other man getting up from his chair. It was time to go. Adam head-butted the first man who was blocking his way, and then kneed him in the groin for good measure. As the man doubled up, Adam pushed past him.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“Whither be the heart of Justice?
            Lo, in stone, child. Lo, in stone.
            Whither be the heart of Justice?
            Lo, tis fast in stone.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

“Misfortunes make us wise”
― Mary Norton, The Borrowers Afield

“I must be loved for myself, just that, or not at all…“ Christian to Cyrano”
― Rostand Edmond 1868-1918, Cyrano de Bergerac; comédie héroïque en cinq actes. Edited with introd. and notes by Oscar Kuhns

“Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Jika hati anda bergetar melihat penindasan maka lawanlah sebab diam adalah bentuk penghianatan”
― Che Guevara

“I’ve got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.”
― Beatrice Sparks

“LeMay says the only way a general can win a modern war is not fight one. Our whole raison d’être was deterrent force. When you don’t deter them any longer, you lose. I think we lost some time ago, because the last five Sputniks have been reconnaissance satellites.”
― Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon

“I sure did live in this world.'
'Really? What have you got to show for it?'
'Show? To who? I got my mind. And what goes on in it. Which is to say, I got me.'
'Lonely, ain't it?'
'Yes. But my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula

“But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia

“Every human heartbeat, he's said many times, is a universe of possibilities.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“strip a city of its leaders, journalists, and cultural examples and you will control an ignorant and vulnerable population. Do you understand now?”
― Jana Petken, The Vogels: On All Fronts