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“...after a while her mood flares. She lights her words with it and flicks them at me.”
― Anna Smaill, The Chimes

“Happiness is a pretty precarious state, Randeep. I'm content. That's more than enough. That's more than most.”
― Sunjeev Sahota, The Year of the Runaways

“No, no- the sky will grow dark, cold rain will fall and all trace of the right way will be blotted out. You will be all alone. And still you will have to go on. There will be ghosts in the dark and voices in the air, disgusting prophecies coming true I wouldn’t wonder and absent faces present on every side, as the man said. And still you will have to go on. The last bridge will fall behind you and the last lights will go out, followed by the sun, the moon and the stars; and still you will have to go on. You will come to regions more desolate and wretched than you ever dreamed could exist, places of sorrow created entirely by that mean superstition which you yourself have put about for so long. But still you will have to go on”
― Richard Adams, Shardik

“Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American

“Whew,' he said, 'I'm glad that's over, Thomas. I've been feeling awfully bad about it.' It was only too evident that he no longer did.”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American

“Hullo, commandant,' I said, 'how's the General?'
'Which general?' he asked with a shy grin.
'Surely in the Caodaist faith,' I said, 'all generals are reconciled.”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American

“Quizás haya un profeta también junto al juez en esos tribunales donde se toman nuestras verdaderas decisiones.”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American

“El sufrimiento no aumenta por el número: un cuerpo puede contener todo el sufrimiento que puede sentir el mundo.”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American

“Cuando uno se escapa a un desierto el silencio te grita en los oídos.”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American

“Cuando somos jóvenes somos una jungla de complicaciones. Nos simplificamos a medida que envejecemos.”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American

“Do you like dogs?'
'No.'
'I thought the British were great dog-lovers.'
'We think Americans love dollars, but there must be exceptions.”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American

“...я слыхал о нем мало доброго. Сказывают, что он барин гордый и своенравный, жестокой в обращении со своими домашними, что никто не может с ним ужиться, что все трепещут при его имени, что с учителями (avec les outchitels) он не церемонится, и уже двух засек до смерти.”
― Пушкин А.С., Дубровский

“– Пуркуа ву туше, пуркуа ву туше, – закричал Антон Пафнутьич, спрягая с грехом пополам русский глагол тушу на французский лад. – Я не могу, дормир, в потемках.”
― Пушкин А.С., Дубровский

“Dinted
dimpled wimpled--his mind wandered down echoing corridors of
assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the
point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words.”
― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

“He always took his bicycle when he went into the country. It was part of the theory of exercise. One day one would get up at six o'clock and pedal away to Kenilworth, or Stratford-on-Avon—anywhere. And within a radius of twenty miles there were always Norman churches and Tudor mansions to be seen in the course of an afternoon's excursion. Somehow they never did get seen, but all the same it was nice to feel that the bicycle was there, and that one fine morning one really might get up at six.”
― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

“Le galbe évasé de ses hanches: had one ever read a French novel in which that phrase didn't occur?”
― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

“He took nobody by surprise; there was nobody to take.”
― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

“I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, “that you’d talk—just once—in prose like other people.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings

“Summer, and he watched his children's heart break.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.
Scout”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“See there?" Jem was scowling triumphantly. "Nothin' to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl its mortifyin”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“About your writing with you left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?"
"I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the other. One hand good as the other.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the seasons would change: Jem and I were burdened with the guilt of contributing to the aberrations of nature, thereby causing unhappiness to our neighbors and discomfort to ourselves.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“If she was on the porch when we passed, we would be raked by her wrathful gaze, subjected to ruthless interrogation regarding our behaviour, and given a melancholy prediction on what we would amount to when we grew up, which was always nothing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn’t much else left for us to learn, except possibly algebra.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird