Page 17 Quotes

“Thank you, Codex, because I didn't know what a knife was.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Shadowhunter's Codex

“İkna çok önemli bir güç ve her güç gibi iyiye de kötüye de kullanılabilir. Bu güçle insanları manipüle ederek aldatabilir veya umutlarını yitirmiş kimseleri hayata yeniden bağlayabilirsin.”
― Tamer Demirdelen, İkna - Oyun Şimdi Başlıyor!

“But argument and entreaty had no more effect on Major Burnaby than if he were a rock. He was an obstinate man. Once his mind was made up on any point, no power on earth could move him.”
― Agatha Christie, The Sittaford Mystery

“In the moment, there wasn’t much time to appreciate the irony of a fire that had essentially been caused by a fire alarm.”
― Scott Von Doviak, Charlesgate Confidential

“She has just seen imminent death peer forth at her from a living face. She is one of the wise ones, one of the forewarned ones; she ran away in time.”
― Cornell Woolrich, Rendezvous in Black

“While the shadows of war darken over Singapore in Jim Farrell’s last completed novel, the atmosphere outside the cabin windows brightens. The damp grayness becomes suffused with gold; the plane, breaking through the cloudbank, levels off in sunlight over an expanse of whipped cream. Vinnie looks at her watch; they are halfway to London.”
― Alison Lurie, Foreign Affairs

“She muttered something that sounded suspiciously like: “She ain’t going have much time spend smelling flowers.”
― Cornell Woolrich, Waltz into Darkness

“His back was to her. He stood before a table; simply because it happened to be there in the way. His hands were planted flat upon it at each side, and he was leaning slightly forward over it. As if peering intently into vistas of the future, that no one but he could see.”
― Cornell Woolrich, Waltz into Darkness

“She didn’t say anything. She opened the door of the car and backed out, holding the handbag and traveling case against her. She pushed the door shut with her foot. She looked in at him and again said, “Thanks,” as if she hated to say it.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man

“Astrid, armed with a shiny business administration degree from Berkeley, took over Lindy Westbrook's very lucrative interior design firm when the older woman retired, while Iris worked as an accountant until she had enough saved to open up Paper Wishes, her paper shop next to Claire's family's bookstore on Linden Street in downtown. Iris was hugely talented-she sold her own line of personalized planners and had over fifty thousand Instagram followers-while Astrid had almost single-handedly revitalized half the houses in Bright Falls.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care

“Claire pretty much ran River Wild Books now, the store her grandmother had started back in the 1960s, and was trying her best to bring it into this century. Her mom let her do what she wanted, but what she wanted-putting in a café, hanging local art on the walls, getting some e-commerce going—took money, and lots of it.
So far, she’d managed to brighten up the shelves and walls, setting up a little reading area with soft leather couches in the middle of the store, but that was it. Still, it was a start.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care