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“That's how, on the second-to-last day of the job, the convict crew that tarred the plate-factory roof in 1950 ending up sitting in a row at ten o'clock on a spring morning, drinking Black Label beer supplied by the hardest screw that ever walked a turn at Shawshank Prison. That beer was piss-warm, but it was still the best I ever had in my life. We sat and drank it and felt the sun on our shoulders, and not even the expression of half-amusement, half-contempt on Hadley's face - as if he was watching apes drink beer instead of men - could spoil it. It lasted twenty minutes, that beer-break, and for those twenty minutes we felt like free men. We could have been drinking beer and tarring the roof of one of our own houses.”
― Different Seasons
― Different Seasons
“Finally and essentially: I not only never could have, but never would have, written this book without the conversations with—and the kindness, grace, empathy, forgiveness, and wisdom of—Jared Hohlt, my first and favorite reader, secret keeper, and North Star. His beloved friendship is the greatest gift of my adulthood.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“But something he'd come to realize on the roof, leaning out, thinking about what would happen if he leaned too far, was that a boy's life could still matter to himself.”
― Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
― Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
“But the nice man had cold eyes. When interacting with his fascinated lady-harem, they had been blue. But when he turned his attention to me - however briefly - I could have sworn that they turned gray, the color of water beneath a sky from which snow will soon fall.”
― 11/22/63
― 11/22/63
“The letter should have been a thousand pages long. It should have talked about the end of evolutionary chains and the loss of free range, about cowboys struggling with the corners of the wire, like the corn husks of winter.”
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“La urma urmei, mă pricep bine la asta, să tulbur liniștea. De cele mai multe ori o fac chiar fără să încerc.”
― Sorcery of Thorns
― Sorcery of Thorns
“Trebuia să devină gardian, paznic al cărților și al cuvintelor. Era prietena lor. Însoțitoarea lor. Gardianul lor. Și, dacă era nevoie, cea care avea să le distrugă.”
― Sorcery of Thorns
― Sorcery of Thorns
“Nu aș vrea să văd că pățești ceva rău.
Grija și mâhnirea i-au transformat trăsăturile în cele ale unui înger, potolindu-i lui Elisabeth temerile.”
― Sorcery of Thorns
Grija și mâhnirea i-au transformat trăsăturile în cele ale unui înger, potolindu-i lui Elisabeth temerile.”
― Sorcery of Thorns
“Să nu uiți niciodată că cea mai bună armă a ta o constituie cunoștințele. Cu cât mai multe cunoștințe, cu atât mai bine,”
― Sorcery of Thorns
― Sorcery of Thorns
“Nu mă așteptam la asta de la tine, Scrivener, dar presupun că anumite specii se mușcă între ele ca preludiu la curtare.”
― Sorcery of Thorns
― Sorcery of Thorns
“I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality.
But what could I tell her about those things that she didnt already know?
I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and
underestimating the human racethat rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I
wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious,
and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.
None of those things, however, came out of my mouth.
All I was able to do was turn to Liesel Meminger and tell her the only
truth I truly know. I said it to the book thief and I say it now to you.
A LAST NOTE FROM YOUR NARRATOR
I am haunted by humans.”
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But what could I tell her about those things that she didnt already know?
I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and
underestimating the human racethat rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I
wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious,
and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.
None of those things, however, came out of my mouth.
All I was able to do was turn to Liesel Meminger and tell her the only
truth I truly know. I said it to the book thief and I say it now to you.
A LAST NOTE FROM YOUR NARRATOR
I am haunted by humans.”
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“In love's symphony, every note counts, every beat matters.”
― Beyond the Bouquet: A Symphony of Love in Fifty Movements
― Beyond the Bouquet: A Symphony of Love in Fifty Movements
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