Lon Stern > Lon's Quotes

“Such abilities are the true gifts of the spirit, my daughter.”
― Candace Lynn Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal

“Before and behind me, nothing but infernal things were made and sold, and I endured inbetween, infernally.”
― Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity

“It seemed to him the EPA, or the Earth Policy Administration, weren’t taking any chances.”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

“When you expect torture, kindness is more dangerous.”
― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: The Prequel

“People of various parts of France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland, the USSR, and other places, were living among the ruins in the best way that they could. Because I was alone and homeless as well as confused, I opted to join the French Foreign Legion. When I was in the Wehrmacht, I thought that their discipline was extreme. However, it was nothing when compared to the discipline as practised by the Foreign Legion!”

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

“Gossip is like thread wound over a spindle of truth, changing its shape.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

“Socialism is not a competition; it is not a monopoly, either. Socialism is not a private property; it is not a state one, either. Socialism is a completely different thing. What is socialism in such case?”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

“Do not procrastinate reading the book, or you won’t have time to study it all before the exam.”
― Pilar Calvoz Cordón, Shape Your Path at IE University : What to expect from Spain’s Instituto de Empresa University

“He had an intrusive gaze and quietly confident manner, that seemed to strip away the layers of protective deception Scott would usually adopt around strangers.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

“People are becoming more and more like pets in digital cages, where the only meaning of their lives is to consume and isolate themselves from others like themselves.”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

“And you're worried, not because you're headed to meet a houseful of vampires, but because you think those vampires won't approve of you, correct?”
“That's right,” I answered immediately, hiding my surprise at his casual use of the word.
He shook his head. “You're incredible.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“How strange to remember anything, even a button
much less a universe.

‘What creature gives birth to itself?’

The universe is mad, slightly mad.”
― Allen Ginsberg

“Most of the supposed expressions of our feelings merely relieve us of them by drawing them out of us in an indistinct form that does not teach us to know them.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“Няма нищо благородно в това да умреш. Нито дори когато умираш за чест. Нито дори когато загиваш като най-великия герой на света. Нито дори ако си толкова велик, че името ти да остане навеки, а кой е толкова велик? Най-скъпото нещо е животът ви, момчета. Мъртви не ставате за нищо, само за речи. Не се оставяйте да ви будалкат повече. Не обръщайте внимание, когато ви потупват по рамото и ви казват хайде, ела с нас, трябва да се бием за свободата или за каквато и да е дума там, защото дума винаги се намира. Просто кажете, господине, съжалявам, но нямам време да умирам, много съм зает и после се обърнете и бягайте, бягайте колкото ви сили държат. Ако ви кажат, че сте страхливци, не обръщайте внимание, защото работата ви е да живеете, а не да мрете. Ако заговорят за смърт в името на някакви принципи по-скъпи от живота, кажете, господине, вие сте лъжец. Няма нищо по-скъпо от живота.”
― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

“Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers for the middle-aged or elderly writer, whose thoughts should more properly be turned to graver matters, occupying himself with the trivial concerns of imaginary people. For if the proper study of mankind is man it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial, and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard