Loreta Foret > Loreta's Quotes

Showing 1-22 of 22
sort by

  • #1
    Max Nowaz
    “The world is full of magic. You’ve just got to learn how to access it.”
    Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

  • #2
    Yvonne Korshak
    “Running out the anchor line, the pirates babbled to one another, and in the tangle of their barbaric language, Aspasia listened for one word—Athens. It lit up the darkness in her mind, like the single glint her eyes fixed on above the distant gray-green hills.”
    Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

  • #3
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them.”
    W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge

  • #4
    “Une grosse vieille dame à côté de moi se retenait à la courroie et sa robe sans manches laissait voir un incroyable nid d'oiseau sous son bras. C'est la chose la plus nauséabonde que j'aie jamais vue. J'espère que Tim ne l'a pas vue, il en serait devenu pédéraste.”
    Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice

  • #5
    “Little Engine That Could - "I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.”
    Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could

  • #6
    Philippa Gregory
    “Because she is my sister, and therefore one-half of me.”
    Phillipa Gregory

  • #7
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “I don't want to die without any scars.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #8
  • #9
    Andri E. Elia
    “A celestial wizard doesn’t destroy celestial bodies. She bends them.”
    Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel

  • #10
    “I gave up on any hope of redemption long ago. Hell, at this point I’m simply waiting to die. So, leave before you waste any more of your time. I can’t and frankly don’t deserve to help you… 
”
    Cade Mengler, The Companions

  • #11
    Michael              Parker
    “Why would you want to kidnap Herr Schiller’s grandson?”
    Jansch looked at his boss. He arched his eyebrows. “I wouldn’t.”
    “I know you wouldn’t. But amuse me, please.”
    Jansch studied the car for a moment. “Leverage,” he said eventually.”
    Michael Parker, The Eagle's Covenant

  • #12
    “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

  • #13
    Michael Wyndham Thomas
    “After that, nothing was the same. The very notion of my having a family turned vague, hard to credit, even weirdly jokey.”
    Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

  • #14
    Therisa Peimer
    “Aurelia frowned. "Are you saying that you hang around the women at court to gather intel?" "Oh, Your Grace, you are quick on the uptake," he said with an impressed look on his face. "It's not fair. Flaminius always gets the hot ones. Does he have to get the smart ones too?”
    Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

  • #15
    Sara Pascoe
    “Love is described like GOD.”
    Sara Pascoe

  • #16
    K.  Ritz
    “This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it.”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #17
    Rick Riordan
    “Nico strode forward. The enemy army fell back before him like he radiated death, which of course he did.
    Through the face guard of his skull-shaped helmet, he smiled. "Got your message. Is it too late to join the party?"
    "Son of Hades." Kronos spit on the ground. "Do you love death so much you wish to experience it?"
    "Your death," Nico said, "would be great for me."
    "I'm immortal, you fool! I have escaped Tartarus. You have no business here, and no chance to live."
    Nico drew his sword-three feet of wicked sharp Stygian iron, black as a nightmare. "I don't agree.”
    Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

  • #18
    Yann Martel
    “It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
    Yann Martel, Life of Pi

  • #19
    Salman Rushdie
    “A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.”
    Salman Rushdie, Shame

  • #20
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York is in heavy boots.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: love

  • #21
    Ruta Sepetys
    “Krasivaya. It means beautiful, but with strength.”
    Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray

  • #22
    Natalie Babbitt
    “And finally she had sobbed the only truth there was into her mother’s shoulder, the only explanation: the Tucks were her friends. She had done it because—in spite of everything, she loved them.”
    Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting



Rss