“You're my lifeline," he whispers, and he kisses my knuckles before pressing my palm against his.”
― Fifty Shades Darker
― Fifty Shades Darker
“Every war casts up certain small groups among ethnic populations: minorities too cowardly to fight openly, too insignificant to play any independent political part, but despicable enough to act as paid executioners to one of the fighting powers. In this war those people were the Ukrainian and Lithuanian Fascists.”
― The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45
― The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45
“He says it was tourists being careless, where I see a fiendishly clever murder attempt.”
“Mr. McCarthy, you’d better explain.”
“Patrick, please. You’ll be tempted to laugh. It was a banana skin.”
― Murder on Family Grounds
“Mr. McCarthy, you’d better explain.”
“Patrick, please. You’ll be tempted to laugh. It was a banana skin.”
― Murder on Family Grounds
“Sentiva dentro di sé un vigore, un'allegria, come non ne aveva mai provati. Con una sorta di intuito si affrettava a goderne, come se indovinasse che in avvenire ogni essere amato, ogni bambino amato le avrebbe rubato un po' di quella forza, di quella sicurezza, di quel freddo coraggio, e l'avrebbero resa simile agli altri, al gregge in cui ciascuno si stringeva ai suoi, a quelli del proprio sangue, nelle tenebre,”
― The Wine of Solitude
― The Wine of Solitude
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