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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2e39774 | I hardly suppose Wagner lost sleep worrying whether he'd hurt someone's feelings. But then he was a genius. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| cc793a3 | All children mythologize their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won't be the truth; it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 715c8ea | This was one of the images of his lifetime. He simply exposed his retina and let love burn her flickering, shimmering, absorbed face onto his soul. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| ab9bb16 | What is it that allows human beings to see through each other's pretendings? For I understood quite clearly in that moment that she was anxious. Perhaps emotions have a smell or a taste; perhaps we transmit them unknowingly by vibrations in the air. Whatever the means, I knew just as surely that it was nothing about me in particular that alarmed her, but only the fact that I had come and was a stranger. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| f235fb7 | She made her resolution. In for a penny, in for a pound. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 403afdf | Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won't be the truth; it will be a story. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 716f858 | I know,' he said, because he was human, and therefore, in a way, he did. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 28d2694 | The incendiary magic she possessed was so strong she could set fire to water if she wanted to badly enough. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 8d16d50 | He explained to me at great length the difficulties I am likely to face here, and I listened with as much politeness as I could muster. Any governess, after the few hours I have had in this house, would have a full and clear picture of the task awaiting her, but he is a man, hence cannot see how tiresome it is to have explained at length what one has already fully understood. My fidgeting and the slight sharpness of one or two of my answers.. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 2418b99 | Politeness. Now, there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 786d550 | Death might be a necessity in farming, but suffering? Never. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| a0e8a44 | Her hair was a dirty color that was too dark to be blond, her chin was big and her eyes were small. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 9a9acb1 | There's a great many things hard to fathom in darkness that set themselves straight in the light of day. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 1e59ce4 | Time was of the essence. For at eight o'clock the world came to an end. It was reading time. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 7ecbacf | The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 6fdb1fb | Pigs are remarkable creatures and, though most men are too blind to see it, have intelligence that they show in their eyes. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 502f1ff | They were not willfully cruel, you know. Only foolish. Misguided by their learning, their ambition, their own self-deceiving blindness. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| ebd3899 | just 'cause a thing's impossible don't mean it can't happen. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| b859acd | And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same. Books are, for me, it must be said, the most important thing; what I cannot forget is that there was a time when they were at once more banal and more essential than that. When I was a child, boo.. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 6c2dd97 | A story so cherished it had to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| bb823cf | The doctor is an intelligent, cultivated man. He has a sincere desire to see the twins improve and has been the prime mover in bringing me to Angelfield. He explained to me at great length the difficulties I am likely to face here, and I listened with as much politeness as I could muster. Any governess, after the few hours I have had in this house, would have a full and clear picture of the task awaiting her, but he is a man, hence cannot s.. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| ad379c1 | There are stories that may be told aloud, and stories that must be told in whispers, and there are stories that are never told at all. The story of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong was one of these latter ones, known only to the two parties to whom it belonged and the river. But as secret visitors to this world, as border crossers between one world and another, there is nothing to prevent us sitting by the river and opening our ears; .. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| aee552c | El silencio no es el entorno natural para las historias -me dijo en una ocasion la senorita Winter-. Las historias necesitan palabras. Sin ellas palidecen, enferman y mueren. Y luego te persiguen. | el-cuento-número-13 | Diane Setterfield | |
| e9d5a46 | El silencio donde moraban sus demonios. | el-cuento-número-13 | Diane Setterfield | |
| 3fb6aa6 | A river no more begins at its source than a story begins with the first page. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| e553a44 | Pero ?que tormenta golpea en silencio? | el-cuento-número-13 | Diane Setterfield | |
| 74a2cde | her fear of action was overtaken by her fear of inaction. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| effb472 | No conviene encarinarse con los personajes secundarios. No es su historia. Vienen, se van, y una vez que se han ido ya no vuelven. Eso es todo. | el-cuento-número-13 | Diane Setterfield | |
| 2c3869b | Cualquier institutriz, despues de pasar unas pocas horas en esta casa, se habria hecho una idea clara y completa de la tarea a la que se enfrenta; pero el medico es un hombre, de modo que no puede percatarse de lo tedioso que a cualquiera le resulta que le expliquen detenidamente lo que ya ha entendido. | el-cuento-número-13 | Diane Setterfield | |
| 2b7345c | Una mente fatigada tiende a tomar derroteros infructuosos; no hay nada que una buena noche de sueno no pueda reparar. | el-cuento-número-13 | Diane Setterfield | |
| e753dd6 | Cuando escribo, incluso ahora mientras estoy escribiendo esta frase, esta palabra, soy consciente de la presencia de un lector fantasma que se inclina sobre mi hombro y contempla mi pluma, que tergiversa mis palabras y distorsiona mi significado, haciendome sentir incomoda incluso en la intimidad de mis propios pensamientos. | el-cuento-número-13 | Diane Setterfield | |
| dd4d271 | the last few miles of the Atlantic Ocean back to England with all of the jewellery hidden in her knickers. Granny | David Walliams | ||
| 96beb8f | Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny. I | Ernest Cline | ||
| 35ccfa2 | There's a sameness to streetlife. On every world I've ever been, the same underlying patterns play out, flaunt and vaunt, buy and sell, like some distilled essence of human behaviour seeping out from under whatever clanking political machine has been dropped on it from above. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| f442bab | I twitched a smile, resisting the temptation to kick his teeth down his throat, and folded myself into the deck chair. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| f6478ba | It is true, I spend some of my leisure time in purchased sexual release, both real and virtual. Or, as you so elegantly put it, whorehouses. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| e67ff1b | Is Sullivan at Bay City Central right now? | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| e776339 | IN ARCHITECTURAL ECHO of service pyramid theory, the Shorn block had rented out its bottom two levels to a series of shopping and eating units that collectively went under the name Basecamp. According to the Shorn promotional literature that Chris had read, Basecamp provided employment for more than six hundred people and, together with the Shorn-owned vehicle repair shops in the basement, was a working embodiment of the virtues of trickled.. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| b81ba2f | Bullet-proof, right?' 'Mmm.' Kawahara tipped her head to one side. 'Depends on the bullet, I would say. But impact resistant, certainly. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 4a5537f | I'd rather you didn't smoke in here.' 'Kawahara, I'd rather you died of an internal haemorrhage, but I don't suppose you'll oblige me. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| f7fd8bb | The personal, as everyone's so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here--it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide out from under with a wink and a grin... | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| c4fe35a | The lawyers I saw there had about as much in common with the man who had defended me at fifteen as automated machine rifle fire has with farting. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 426321a | The car boosted up and presumably out because I heard the drumming of rain against the bodywork. There was a faint smell of leather from the upholstery, which beat the odour of faeces on the inbound journey, and the seat I was in moulded itself supportively to my form. I seemed to have moved up in the order of things. | Richard K. Morgan | ||
| 478dc79 | The personal, as everyone's so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, TAKE IT PERSONALLY. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here - it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide out from under with a wink and a grin.. | Richard K. Morgan |