“Rhoda comes now, having slipped in while we were not looking. She must have made a tortuous course, taking cover now behind a waiter, now behind some ornamental pillar, so as to put off as long as possible the shock of recognition, so as to be secure for one more moment to rock her petals in her basin. We wake her. We torture her. She dreads us, she despises us, yet she comes cringing to our sides because for al our cruelty there is always some name, some face which sheds a radiance, which lights up her pavements and makes it possible for her to replenish her dreams.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
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“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“فى الحقيقة نحن لا نهب أنفسنا شيئا , فقط تعرضنا للمواقف المختلفة هو ما يمنحنا , ولا أتعجب حينما أرى الصبى بائع " المناديل " فى الشوارع أكثر خبرة ودراية من شاب أوشك على التخرج من كلية الطب .”
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“(Brigit on getting a splinter)
"Such particles are frightfully exasperating to extricate painlessly."
Bracy let out a low sigh, "There she goes again.”
― The Fate of Arcrea
"Such particles are frightfully exasperating to extricate painlessly."
Bracy let out a low sigh, "There she goes again.”
― The Fate of Arcrea
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