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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 25791b9 | To come up against someone who appeared not to give a damn about exerting petty power almost restored his faith in the public. | officialdom officials petty petty-people power-games | Val McDermid | |
| c97a9e1 | I've read the stories. Teenagers committing suicide because all they can see ahead of them is shame and disgrace. Kids running away from home because they feel like they've list their future. Well, I'm not having that happen to Torin. | child-pornography child-sexual-exploitation hopelessness sexting shame suicide | Val McDermid | |
| 0d5ca52 | There's a thing called narcissistic personality disorder. People who have an inflated sense of their own importance, a lack of empathy for others. They're vain, they crave the power over others they think they deserve. They can be arrogant and callous. They think they're better than everybody else and they don't care who they trample on in their desire to get what they want.' 'A bit like Donald Trump, then? | Val McDermid | ||
| b444a8c | louring | Val McDermid | ||
| 500dc65 | What it had done, however, was to give him a feeling of power and control that had taken him back to how he used to feel every day. | controlling-people emasculation empowered misogynist patriarchy power revenge violent-death | Val McDermid | |
| ed2d3d2 | I just think sometimes, they were kids once. They ran about the park kicking a football. They had things they wanted to be. Nobody dreams about being that guy there. Nobody sets out to be like him. And we keep coming up against folk that have got themselves completely fucked up. | Val McDermid | ||
| 09e3d46 | 'You're a very unusual man, Mark,' she'd said. 'That's nice of you to say so,' he said. | deception predator serial-killer unusual-people | Val McDermid | |
| a6d444c | Her fight with alcohol had made for contentious exchanges and, if that were possible, even more contentious silences. Tony, empathetic to the point of self-harming, felt the pain of her abstinence as powerfully as anything he'd ever endured personally. | alcholism empath empathetic empathy-for-others recovering-alcoholism self-harm | Val McDermid | |
| 5335e96 | Within the infant rind of this weak flower Poison hath residence and medicine power' Romeo and Juliet, II, iii | Val McDermid | ||
| 8b741ad | You couldn't have everything. At least, not all at the same time. | Val McDermid | ||
| 38e565c | sempiternal | Val McDermid | ||
| 121d334 | The habit of loving is definitely one to be cultivated. | Val McDermid | ||
| 15c5d21 | The abbey was vampire heaven. | vampires | Val McDermid | |
| dc3ac93 | Edwardian house in Worcester | Val McDermid | ||
| c033f91 | Cat's passion for atmospheric architecture was only just second to her passion for Henry. | jane-austen-inspired | Val McDermid | |
| 1297b8f | macerating what was left of the organs, 'liver, a portion of the heart, a certain | Val McDermid | ||
| af93b39 | thought | Val McDermid | ||
| ff76268 | His face seemed to be in retreat from a sharp nose, as if he'd been caught in the teeth of a gale at birth. | Val McDermid | ||
| 0ecae56 | In the biological world children are the sole purpose. Nothing else matters. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 2e24676 | Siempre hemos vivido para crear buenos recuerdos, no para olvidar. Toda cultura se basa en la conservacion y la busqueda de recuerdos del pasado y, al mismo tiempo, en la creacion de nuevos recuerdos. El arte mira hacia atras y hacia delante. | Henning Mankell | ||
| fc5b30c | En los tiempos en que vivimos, la memoria es mas corta si cabe que en ninguna epoca anterior de la historia del hombre. Nos inundan todo el rato con una lluvia torrencial de informacion, pero lo sabemos, y cada vez recordamos menos. Nos revientan el cerebro simbolicamente. A medida que entra la informacion nueva, los recuerdos anteriores van quedando en los vertederos mentales. Si nuestro palacio de recuerdos fuera real, el nivel del agua d.. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 8228b67 | Para la mayoria de las personas, la vida consiste en algo que no consiguen acabar. | Henning Mankell | ||
| c66a4ad | A lo largo de la historia, muy pocas personas han podido dedicarse sin mas a algo distinto de sobrevivir. Cierto es que nunca han podido hacerlo tantas como hoy. Pero aun asi la mitad de la humanidad, como minimo, vive hoy sin opciones. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 848a87e | Trusting what a person says is always a risk. The truth is always provisional, while lies are often solid. | Henning Mankell | ||
| c56c909 | Existe una suerte de denominador comun entre todas las grandes civilizaciones y culturas clasicas: para quienes vivian en ellas, todas eran inmortales. | Henning Mankell | ||
| c95cd15 | Dos conceptos resumen lo que ha sido y, probablemente, tambien lo que va a ser: supervivencia y destruccion. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 2786cbc | Lo repugnante puede resultar atractivo a veces. Aterrador, amenazante, pero tambien tentador. Como cuando nos acercamos a algo que huele mal, pero no podemos dejar de aspirar el hedor. | Henning Mankell | ||
| b025490 | Growing older was like a mist silently drifting across the sea. | Henning Mankell | ||
| d562f1d | He walked out and closed the door. Linda had the feeling that she was imprisoned, not with a lock and key, but by the imposed time limit. She decided to write down what she was going to say in a note-book, and pulled one across the table towards her. When she flipped it open she was confronted with a bad sketch of a seductively posed naked woman. To her surprise she saw it was Martinsson's notepad. But why should that surprise me? she thoug.. | magnus-martinsson men notebook | Henning Mankell | |
| 395b286 | La barbarie ha sempre dei connotati umani, penso. E questo che rende la barbarie cosi disumana. L'aveva letto da qualche parte. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 828ad0b | He doubted he would ever make it happen, but it made him feel a bit better, letting a dream form then watching it slowly fade away again. A | Henning Mankell | ||
| dfb027e | Growing older meant losing a little bit of energy every single day. And one day it would be completely gone. | Henning Mankell | ||
| e079622 | On se connait si mal, se dit-elle confusement avant de s'endormir dans son lit. On a beau se dire plus jamais... Dans le fond, c'est peut-etre ca qui nous aide a vivre... L'inattendu. Ce qui arrive contre toute attente... | Henning Mankell | ||
| 6374808 | Le plus dur, c'est d'etre femme. Etre femme et aspirer a autre chose que de passer sa vie dans la cuisine. Autrement dit: avoir du courage, oser aller plus loin. | Henning Mankell | ||
| a023d35 | Il a passe sa vie a sauter d'une plaque de glace a une autre sur ce fleuve gele qui l'emporte inexorablement vers les eaux noires. | Henning Mankell | ||
| d8e0550 | La vieillesse est le cote sombre de la vie et rien d'autre. Elle n'est qu'une illusion, un miroir aux alouettes. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 5e5fb15 | Sorrow and respect didn't follow a colour scheme. | Henning Mankell | ||
| ea7dfe8 | La idea de un palacio para los recuerdos ha seguido viva desde entonces bajo diversas formas a lo largo de la historia. Una de ellas, misteriosa y sugerente, es aquella segun la cual quien se mueve en esas salas infinitas es uno mismo, como una especie de maximo pontifice o de director de biblioteca que va extrayendo del pasado los recuerdos a medida que los reclama la conciencia. Por las noches dominan los otros bibliotecarios, de natural .. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 0e11fb1 | Sin reconocer el miedo, ?puede uno mostrar valor? Yo creo que no es posible. El miedo es mucho mas que ese temor primitivo y basico a morir. El depredador te ve, pero tu no ves al depredador. La muerte siempre te observa como una presa legitima. Pero el miedo puede responder tambien a un dolor que no se deja reprimir. O al terror a que llegue un dia en que ya no puedas participar de lo que ocurra al dia siguiente, y al otro y al otro. El mi.. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 3122190 | Valor y miedo van siempre de la mano. Hace falta valor para vivir y valor para morir. | Henning Mankell | ||
| cbf27eb | Aunque mas adelante he elegido mal de vez en cuando en la vida, nunca podra compararse con la derrota que supone no elegir en absoluto. | Henning Mankell | ||
| 0ed46cc | He took a sheet of paper out of a desk drawer. But what would he write? The day's work had hardly involved more than collecting a large number of question marks. | Henning Mankell | ||
| f11738f | You have a good father." She was taken aback." | Henning Mankell | ||
| 44e8be3 | Las posibilidades de eleccion que tiene una persona permiten tambien que pueda atreverse a elegir de que lado quiere estar en una sociedad injusta, que vive en tension entre los distintos campos de fuerza de la indecencia. Ello constituye la base del hecho de que todos somos seres politicos, lo queramos o no. Vivimos en una dimension esencialmente politica, un contrato que tenemos con todos nuestros contemporaneos. Pero tambien un contrato .. | Henning Mankell |