Quentin Colomy > Quentin's Quotes

“The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew tea for the cooks. Windows are open to counter the heat of the ovens. Outside, the sky is as black as my soul.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

“He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession.
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― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

“If I were to kiss you then go to hell, I would. So then I can brag with the devils I saw heaven without ever entering it.”
― William Shakespeare

“Deciding that his own life expectancy was directly proportional to his usefulness to Manson, Crockett made himself very useful, volunteering his truck to haul in supplies, and so forth.”
― Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

“suffering brought endurance in order that one might be strengthened for whatever lay ahead.”
― Francine Rivers, Mark of the Lion Collection

“— Говорю тебе, сеньорита Стиви, — в джунглях в своих странствиях я видел, есть крестьяне, что живут рядом с логовами и охотничьими землями тигров. Некоторые из этих тигров убивают людей — некоторые нет. Никто не знает, почему. Но все знают, что тигры, которые убивают, должны умереть, — потому что раз напившись крови человека, они не могут от нее отвыкнуть.”
― Caleb Carr, The Angel of Darkness

“Real life is so…messy.”
― Andrew Clements, The Losers Club

“A look of absolute terror locked onto her features.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

“10. The stranger’s breath also came out in small white clouds. The man was clearly a lot fitter than his charges and wasn’t breathing nearly as heavily. “I have been sent – that’s all you need to know for now. As to the walls, there are secrets in even the thickest walls, young master. You just need to know where to look.”
― Robert Reid, The Empress

“I don’t like anything pointing at me, dollface, that includes an umbrella, a finger, or a gun, got it?”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

“Americans have a love affair with weak coffee.’ ‘And you’re a coffee expert, too,’ Gwen said, cutting a thick slice of apple pie.”
― Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity

“The entire horrid trip has held up a harsh mirror for his own life of privilege and chronic narcissism.”
― Guy Morris, The Last Ark: Lost Secrets of Qumran

“Comrades, it is peoples’ power that shall soon become the crucial factor that is safeguarding our independence.”
― Michael G. Kramer, The Full Circle for Mick

“Jack laughed behind him, a mirthless sound from a man who had been on the wrong end of life's ironies too many times.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

“The further you chase the truth, the more you’ll be repulsed by the deception.”
― H. Meadow Hopewell, Rage Against the Machine

“God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no possibility of going wrong, but I can't. If a thing is free to be good it's also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. A world of automata -of creatures that worked like machines- would hardly be worth creating. The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they've got to be free.
Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently, He thought it worth the risk. (...) If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will -that is, for making a real world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings- then we may take it it is worth paying.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Case for Christianity

“Entre los dos se hizo silencio. Un silencio que es especial de los hospitales y que se deriva de la propia situación - uno el la cama, herido o enfermo, y el otro sano al lado - que en realidad lo explica todo. Las palabras se vuelven pequeñas, superficiales. Sólo se puede decir lo más importante.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist

“Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you ever thought we might like you because you're different?”
― Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure

“He meant to take Flower down the Soo, through the Greats and clear to the salt.”
― Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

“I’m still a doughnut, okay?” I said. “I want to be a bun. I really do. But I’m still a doughnut.”
― Jojo Moyes, After You

“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!”
― Benjamin Franklin