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“Всичко това щеше да продължи да съществува - вълните, шипквите храсти, ронещи по пясъка изсушени листенца; ако аз умра, всичко това пак ще го има; тази мисъл я възмущаваше.”
― Труман Капоти, Summer Crossing

“People will risk everything for a little bit of something beautiful.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“Тя не се страхуваше да каже: богата съм, парите са островът, на който стоя; защото оценяваше значението на този остров, съзнаваше, че той подхранва корените ѝ и благодарение на парите винаги можеше да си позволи да замени всичко: къщи, мебели, хора.”
― Труман Капоти, Summer Crossing

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“A world of words where the black characters printed on the parchment he held meant more to this monk than the people or places around him.”
― Marina Fiorato, The Botticelli Secret

“It’s a small story really, about, among other things:

* A girl
* Some words
* An accordionist
* Some fanatical Germans
* A Jewish fist fighter
* And quite a lot of thievery”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.”
― Stephen King, Cell

“Creative people have to be fundamentally egoistic. This may sound pompous, but it happens to be the truth. People who live their lives watching what goes on around them, trying not to make waves, and looking for the easy compromise are not going to be able to do creative work, whatever their field. To build something where there was nothing requires deep individual concentration, and in most cases that kind of concentration occurs in a place unrelated to cooperation with others, a place we might even call dämonisch.”
― Haruki Murakami, Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa

“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”
― Stephen King, It

“Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.”
― Stephen King, It

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze? ”
― Jean Kerr

“I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Love is when you like someone so much you have to call it something else.”
― Marina Fiorato, The Botticelli Secret

“Сигурно греховете, за които човек си плаща, са извършени в някой дуг живот.”
― Донал Райън, The Queen of Dirt Island

“The lowest trash always have the option of taking refuge in patriotism.”
― Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly

“We want answers for even our tiniest anxieties and a way of conceiving the world without reexamining our values, our emotions, and our actions. Take climate change. We never listen to the scientists.”
― Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly

“We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“And now you can't smoke in bars. Yeah, I know that's happening everywhere, but a bar isn't supposed to be a healthy place, goddammit. It's a place you go to scheme, to relax, to get wasted. But not here.”
― Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed