Page 26 Quotes

“No, my advocates, my angels with sadist eyes, this is the beginning of my life, or the end. So I lean affirmation across the cafe table, and surrender my fifty years away with an easy smile. But the surety of my love is not dismayed by any eventuality which prudence or pity can conjure up, and in the end all that we can do is to sit at the table over which our hands cross, listening to tunes from the wurlitzer, with love huge and simple between us, and nothing more to be said.”
― Elizabeth Smart, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

“إنه المهزوم لا المنتصر، وحده المهزوم وصل إلى النهاية، وحده المهزوم يتحول إلى رمز، وحده المهزوم يعرف من هو، وحده المهزوم يبلغ الحكمة النهائية: كل الأشياء إلى فناء وزوال، حتى الدموع ستنشف في النهاية.”
― ربيع جابر, شاي أسود

“Words shouldn't be allowed to change meanings. Who decides that the meaning has changed, and when? Is there an in-between time when word means both things. Or a time when the word doesn't mean anything at all?”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“You're amazing,' he would say, and I would feel like a buttercream with a hazelnut heart”
― Jerry Spinelli, Milkweed

“Okay, we should go.' Kylie touched Della's arm. But then, being Kylie and unable to leave on a bad note, she looked back at the new vamp. 'Welcome to Shadow Falls. I'm Kylie'
Della rolled her eyes. Why did Kylie think she had to play nice?
'You're Kylie Galen?' he asked, looking in awe 'Wow, I've heard about you.'
'Don't believe half of it,' Kylie said, a bit bashful
'I'm Chase Tallman,' he said, totally trying to impress Kylie. He even puffed out his chest a little, like a damn bird doing some kind of mating dance. Yeah, keep that up and I know a werewolf that'll be chomping on your ass!”
― C.C. Hunter, Reborn

“When you indulge yourself in bitter thought, it feels so satisfying to fantasize about payback. But slowly and surely it will enlarge your capacity for self-pity, erode your ability to trust and enjoy relationships, and generally drain the happiness out of your daily life. Sin always the conscience, locks you in the prison of your own defensiveness and rationalizations, and eats you up slowly from the inside.”
― Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal Prophet: Jonah and the Mystery of God's Mercy

“Warren Buffet’ın ismi “70\30” olan çok önemli ve güzel bir kuralı vardır. Eğer 30 yaşındaysanız yüzde 70 hisse senedine yatırım yaparsınız. Bu kural çok önemlidir. Sebebi de şudur; daha gençseniz riske karşı daha fazla toleransınız vardır. Çünkü yaşam beklentiniz daha uzundur. Ama 70 yaşınıza geldiğinizde, yaşam beklentiniz 30 yaşa göre daha azaldığı için risk iştahınız çok daha düşüktür. Bu yüzden 30 yaşında yüzde 70 ise, 70 yaşında yüzde 30 kuralından söz edilebilir.”
― Murat Sağman, Borsada Oynanmaz

“It was all like a movie—hell, it was a whole damn film festival.”
― Scott Von Doviak, Charlesgate Confidential

“Tall, slender, a long delicate face with slightly hollow cheekbones—ironic black brows—black eyes and hair. She was like a delicate etching, he thought—poignant and beautiful.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“She smiled, a sudden curving smile that brought the corners of her long mouth halfway up her cheeks.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

“He already had the beautiful, deep purple voice which would prove to be his fortune in the communications industry.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Deadeye Dick

“How bitterly we regretted the route we had chosen and blamed ourselves for what had occurred.”
― Anthony Horowitz

“A new nursemaid came, a thin white girl with protruding eyes. Her name was Isabel, but she was called Susan as being ‘more suitable’. This puzzled Vernon very much. He asked Nurse for an explanation. ‘There are names that are suitable to the gentry, Master Vernon, and names that are suitable for servants. That’s all there is to it.”
― Mary Westmacott, Giant's Bread

“He had heard her say to other ladies, ‘He asks me the quaintest questions. Just listen to this. Aren’t children funny and adorable?’ But Vernon couldn’t see that he was funny or adorable at all. He just wanted to know. You’d got to know. That was part of growing up.”
― Mary Westmacott, Giant's Bread

“no fairy tale setting ... holds up under a microscope”
― Steven Rowley