“There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”
― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.”
― The Road
― The Road
“I was giving up. I would have given up - if a voice hadn't made itself heard in my heart. The voice said "I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare. I will beat the odds, as great as they are. I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I will turn miracle into routine. The amazing will be seen everyday. I will put in all the hard work necessary. Yes, so long as God is with me, I will not die. Amen.”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
“A man was defined not by his flaws, but by how he overcame them.”
― The Well of Ascension
― The Well of Ascension
“All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually imbibing and assimilating every particle of each other's soul and flesh; but there we were, unable even to mate as slum children would have so easily found an opportunity to do so.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
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