“He made a mistake, one that would send him to death row and eventually cost him his freedom for life.”
― The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
― The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
“Annabel was, like the writer, of mixed parentage: half-English, half-Dutch, in her case. I remember her features far less distinctly today than I did a few years ago, before I knew Lolita. There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open (and then I see Annabel in such general terms as: "honey-colored skin," "thin arms," "brown bobbed hair," "long lashes," "big bright mouth"); and the other when you instantly evoke, with shut eyes, on the dark innerside of your eyelids, the objective, absolutely optical replica of a beloved face, a little ghost in natural colors (and this is how I see Lolita).”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“We are lived by drives we cannot command, and we are read by works we cannot resist.”
― Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
― Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
“If you want God to bless you and use you greatly, you must be willing to walk with a limp the rest of your life, because God uses weak people.”
― The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
― The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
“I didn't know how to be in the world without her.”
― The Invention of Wings
― The Invention of Wings
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