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“You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.’ It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

“Mary tried to look reassuring. “It’s a house party, he said,” she directed at the Falconers, “Sir Viktor’s holding a house party for the convenience of the police. It’s like an old-fashioned mystery novel.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything; I begin just where I left off.”
― Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

“we could not pray for
anything any more, because we would feel that He always knows of
something better.”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi

“Everyone sees different things.”
― Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

“Whoever he is, he is not worth all this.

And I will never
unclench my teeth long enough
to tell him so.”
― Alice Walker, Goodnight Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning

“¡Y cómo rezaba! ¡Qué mirada de ternera la suya! Los ojos se le iban poniendo cada vez más vidriosos, y su boca, amargada, se movía sin cesar y sin la menor puntuación. Así es como suelen boquear, buscando aire, los peces arrojados a la playa. Sirva esta imagen para ilustrar el descomedimiento con que Mahlke rezaba.”
― Günter Grass, Cat and Mouse

“So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.”
― Justin Cronin, The Passage