Teodora Paslaru

“Her restraint and control taught me a lesson I have not strayed from to this day. You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“If nothing else, they died fast and they were warm. The boy from the plane, I thought. The one with the teddy bear. Where was Rudy's confort? Where was someone to alleviate this robbery of his life? Who was there to soothe him as life's rug was snatched from under his sleeping feet?”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in excange for a story. He will never forget the sweet poison of vanity in his blood, and the belief tat, if he succeds in not letting anyone dicover his lack of talent, the dream of literature will provide him with a roof over his head, a hot meal at the end of day, and what he covets the most: his name printed on a miserable piece of papaer that surely will outlive hime. A writer is condemned to remember that moment, because from then on he is doomed and his soul has a price.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“One guy has his head on a table, eyes closed, vomit drooling from his mouth. Another pulls out his false teeth and clamps them on the ear of a gal at the next table. An immense woman in a purple jumpsuit is crying while another woman screams at her. And what I'm thinking is maybe it's time to halt all human reproduction. Let God or evolution or wathever put us here in the first place start again from scratch, because this isn't working.”
― Ron Rash, Burning Bright