Quotes - Viola (Weingarten, 01, Germany) Showing 1-30 of 94

#1

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: power-of-words

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#2

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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#3

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

tags: francis-abernathy, the-secret-history

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#4

“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

tags: words

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#5

“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

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#6

“How tremendous the agony of unmade decisions.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

tags: decisions

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#7

“But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

tags: end, tragedy

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#8

“What is more important, that Caesar is assassinated or that he is assassinated by his intimate friends? … That,’ Frederick said, 'is where the tragedy is.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

tags: betrayal, if-we-were-villains, julius-caesar, m-l-rio, murder, shakespeare, tragedy

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#9

“One thing I'm sure Colborne will never understand is that I need language to live, like food—lexemes and morphemes and morsels of meaning nourish me with the knowledge that, yes, there is a word for this. Someone else has felt it before.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

tags: language, words

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#10

“Per aspera ad astra. I’d heard a variety of translations, but the one I liked best was Through the thorns, to the stars.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

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#11

“Actors are by nature volatile—alchemic creatures composed of incendiary elements, emotion and ego and envy. Heat them up, stir them together, and sometimes you get gold. Sometimes disaster.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

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#12

“It’s not the whole truth. The whole truth is, I’m in love with him still.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

tags: love

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#13

“There is no comfort like complicity.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

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#14

“You were real to me. Sometimes I thought you were the only real thing.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

tags: love, real, romance

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#15

“I never asked where he went, worried he wouldn’t ask me to follow.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

tags: fear

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#16

“Secrets carry weight, like lead.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

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#17

“James laughed brokenly, and I felt something deep between my lungs crack clean in two.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

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#18

“Hatred is the sincerest form of flattery.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

tags: flattery, hate

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#19

“Do you blame Shakespeare for any of it?”
The question is so unlikely, so nonsensical coming from such a sensible man, that I can’t suppress a smile. “I blame him for all of it.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

tags: literary-fiction, mystery, mystery-thriller, thriller

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#20

“When did we become such terrible people?”
“Maybe we’ve always been terrible.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

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#21

“One sin, I know, another doth provoke; Murder’s as near to lust as flame to smoke.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

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#22

“Imagine having all your own thoughts and feelings tangled up with all the thoughts and feelings of a whole other person. It can be hard, sometimes, to sort out which is which.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

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#23

“We’re only ever playing fifty percent of a character. The rest is us, and we’re afraid to show people who we really are. We’re afraid of looking foolish if we reveal the full force of our emotions.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

tags: acting, actor, true-self

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#24

“Make art, make mistakes, and have no regrets.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

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#25

“Nothing unites men like a common enemy.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

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#26

“Something changed irrevocably, in those few dark minutes James was submerged, as if the lack of oxygen had caused all our molecules to rearrange.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

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#27

“I’ve hope to live, and am prepared to die.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

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#28

“Was I not always his right-hand man, his lieutenant? Banquo or Benvolio or Oliver - little difference.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

tags: friendship, love

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#29

“Oliver, I don’t understand,” he said. “Why?”
“You know why.” I was done pretending otherwise.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

tags: literary-fiction-authors, mystery, thriller

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#30

“His voice sounded flat, wrong, as if someone had struck a false note on the piano.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

tags: voice

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