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“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

“What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“No social stability without individual stability.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.”
― Aldous Huxley

“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning strikes, as a Finnish knife strikes! She, by the way, insisted afterwards that it wasn’t so, that we had, of course, loved each other for a long, long time, without knowing each other, never having seen each other… ”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly.
The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation.
"I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either. And at first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked...”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Да не си мислите, че бих си позволил да налея на дама водка? Това е чист спирт!”
― Bulgakov M.A., Мастер и Маргарита. Белая гвардия

“Единственото, което може да спаси смъртно ранен котарак... е глътка бензин.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“— Водка ли е? — попита тихо Маргарита.
Котаракът подскочи на стола от обида.
— Но моля ви, кралице — изхриптя той, — как бих си позволил да налея на една дама водка? Това е чист спирт!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Последвай ме, читателю! Кой ти е казал, че на този свят не съществува истинската, вярна, вечна любов! Да бъде отрязан на лъжеца гнусният му език!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Любовта изскочи пред нас, както изскача изпод земята на някоя уличка убиец, и ни прониза и двамата едновременно.
Така пронизва мълния, така пронизва финландска кама!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Аз вярвам! Нещо ще се случи! Не може да не се случи, иначе наистина трябва да ми е отредена доживотна мъка? Признавам, че лъгах и мамех, водех таен, скрит от хората живот, но нима може наказанието за това да е толкова жестоко... Да сигурна съм, че нещо ще се случи, защото е невъзможно нещо да се проточи вечно.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Party lights hang over the street, yellow and red and green. Sadie stumbles over someone’s chair, but I’m ready for this and I catch her easily by the arm.

“Sorry, clumsy,” she says.

“You always were, Sadie. One of your more endearing traits.”

Before she can ask about that I slip my arm around her waist. She slips hers around mine, still looking up at me. The lights skate across her cheeks and shine in her eyes. We clasp hands, fingers folding together naturally, and for me the years fall away like a coat that’s too heavy and too tight. In that moment, I hope on thing above all others: that she was not too busy to find at least one good man …

She speaks in a voice almost too low to be heard over the music. But I hear her – I always did. “Who are you, George?”

“Someone you knew in another life, honey.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Книгите са огледала; в тях човек вижда само онова, което носи в себе си.”
― Карлос Руис Сафон

“But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if
evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows
disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the
shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings.
Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because
of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Работих десет години като лекар и пишейки рецепти, овладях кратката форма и имената на някои нашумели лекарства. В една юлска утрин се събудих внезапно с усещането, че някой ме дърпа за ръката. Огледах се и видях, че държа химикалка и пиша: „Няма такава книга“. Ето така започна всичко, а как ще завър­ши, никой не знае.”
― Людмил Станев

“Страниците не крещят, не ръкомахат, не ви бутат по рамото:”Слушай сега“. Те са като археологически отломки по дъното и който има „кислородни бутилки“ и пожелае да ги види, ще ги съзре. През вековете те деликатно си стоят долу, побутвани невидимо от вълните на времето и нямат никакви желания.”
― Людмил Станев, Приятели Мои

“Nothing in childhood is ever wasted.”
― Bruce Dickinson, What Does This Button Do?: An Autobiography

“A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger