1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1384
2208
3346
3522
5443
5619
6757
7581
7764
7765
7766
7767
7768
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| baea7be | Gide, | Julie Orringer | ||
| 40d3a16 | The names of the list mean something. Every one. They mean something to me." "Everyone means something to someone." | names ww2 | Julie Orringer | |
| 6fd863b | At times, circumstances conspire to make us believe the lies we tell ourselves. Everything- the weather, the season, the fall of light- sets the stage for our play; we find ourselves, instead of acting, becoming the characters, moving into a reality in which we're inseparable from our roles. | circumstances life | Julie Orringer | |
| 4bcbcec | It all seemed grossly unfair. He wanted nothing at all to change | unfairness-of-life | Julie Orringer | |
| 17a39ab | How astounding, Andras thought, that a ship that size could shrink to the size of a house, and then to the size of a car; the size of a desk, a book, a shoe, a walnut, a grain of rice, a grain of sand. How astounding that the largest thing he'd ever seen was still no match for the diminishing effect of distance. It made him aware of his own smallness in the world, his insignificance in the face of what might come, and for a moment his chest.. | Julie Orringer | ||
| 4db2796 | One and a half million Jewish men and women and children: How was anyone to understand a number like that? Andras knew it took three thousand to fill the seats of the Dohany Street Synagogue. To accommodate a million and a half, one would have had to replicate that building, its arches and domes, its Moorish interior, its balcony, its dark wooden pews and gilded art, five hundred times. And then to envision each of those five hundred synago.. | Julie Orringer | ||
| 5a8596b | me to Munkaszolgalat websites | Julie Orringer | ||
| b3fc9f3 | Judaism offered no Shivah for lost love. There was no Kaddish to say, no candle to burn...no injunction against listening to music or going to work. | Julie Orringer | ||
| 64100ed | Willingly Andras followed him into the curved halls of calculus, where the problem of Madame Morgenstern could not exist because it could not be described by an equation. | Julie Orringer | ||
| 2c5f130 | He grieved too, Klara said, for the loss of a certain idea of himself. | love relatable-quotes wwii | Julie Orringer | |
| c32f25e | How astounding that the largest thing he'd ever seen was still no match for the diminishing effect of distance. It made him aware of his own smallness in the world, his insignificance in the face of what might come, and for a moment his chest felt light with panic. | love relatable-quotes wwii | Julie Orringer | |
| fbf7a46 | It seemed a miracle that any man who loved a woman might be loved by her in return. | Julie Orringer | ||
| f615b73 | Life, oblivious to his grief, continued | lost-love paris wwii | Julie Orringer | |
| a23e3ed | This is the Centre Americain de Secours. What is more American than wild hope? | hope | Julie Orringer | |
| af323b1 | But was it cowardice to call out a lie, to insist on truth? | lie truth | Julie Orringer | |
| 79601b1 | It's no small matter to cross an ocean,"Chagall said. "More can be lost than canvas and paint. An artist must bear witness, Monsieur Fry. He cannot turn away, even if he wished to." "An artist cannot bear witness if he's dead." | ww2-holocaust | Julie Orringer | |
| 6e7e50f | God asks the most of those he loves best. | Julie Orringer | ||
| e639c1c | With a sweet kiss, off the glass... | Bill Raftery | ||
| 8205662 | Men put roadblocks in front of women as a way of hiding their inefficiencies. | Bernadette Lahai | ||
| 39b7bd4 | Billy's one and only moment of candor was when I parked him in front of my computer to play a game. He took one look at the Noah's Ark display and his whole face flinched like someone had hit him. He told me that the snow leopard is extinct. The last surviving specimen died in a zoo a few weeks back. "The snow leopard was my favorite," he said. Then he sat down at the computer and within about 30 seconds he was lost in a realistic prison in.. | Michel Faber | ||
| 9265c16 | The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| ce390f8 | He cupped his testicles in his hands, and, with his wrists, pressed his penis hard against his belly until the semen came. | Michel Faber | ||
| 2ccd388 | Lose track of time for a moment -just long enough to be overtaken by a hundred and thirty years. | Michel Faber | ||
| 48289dd | bitumen. | Michel Faber | ||
| 3df296f | It burns in her mind, branded there by Mrs Castaway: Wicked is what we can't help being, little one. The word was invented to describe us. Men love to wallow in sin; we are the sin they wallow in. | Michel Faber | ||
| 11137c0 | Someone at work said to me this morning, "Where is God in all this?" I didn't rise to the bait. I can never understand why people ask that question. The real question for the bystanders of tragedy is "Where are WE in all this?" | Michel Faber | ||
| 5ca3394 | It was a husk, no longer truly their mother - more like their mother's most treasured possession, which had been given to them as a parting gift. | Michel Faber | ||
| ecff442 | protective of his gleaming domain, beavering away in it alone like an obsessed scientist in a humid and luridly lit laboratory. | Michel Faber | ||
| e17edf2 | He didn't want to be like some old-fashioned imperialist missionary, poncing about like Moses in a safari suit, capitalizing on a misconception that he was from the same tribe as Jesus and that God was an Englishman. | Michel Faber | ||
| 8affde7 | Locating a past event in measured time was something they could do with great effort, as a special favor, but Peter could tell they didn't see the point. Why should it matter exactly how many days, weeks, months or years ago a relative had died? A person was either living amongst them or in the ground. | Michel Faber | ||
| a393361 | In every Christian's life there comes a time when he or she needs to know the precise circumstances under which God is willing to heal the sick. | Michel Faber | ||
| 086b5b3 | There were no oceans on Oasis, no large bodies of water, and presumably no fish. He wondered whether this would cause comprehension problems when it came to certain crucial fish-related Bible stories. There were so many of those: Jonah and the whale, the miracle of the loaves and the fishes, the Galilean disciples being fishermen, the whole 'fishers of men' analogy . . . the bit in Matthew 13 about the kingdom of heaven being like a net ca.. | fish fishers-of-men fishing-nets nets translations | Michel Faber | |
| e25c64b | could indicate the cocky self-awareness of a male in prime condition. | Michel Faber | ||
| 93f611b | behaving as if his actions didn't need defending. Typical rich kid, typical pampered little tycoon. None of their actions ever needed defending, did they? | Michel Faber | ||
| 9e79c60 | Their wealth makes them like a different creature, an exotic thing that doesn't have to function like a human. | Michel Faber | ||
| 9490396 | She couldn't quite believe it, even after all these years. It was a phenomenon of stupendous and unjustifiably useless extravagance. Yet here it lay, soft and powdery, edibly pure. | Michel Faber | ||
| 28660a7 | Anyway, when sophisticated technology fails, primitive technology steps in to do the job. | technology | Michel Faber | |
| 0c71ad7 | how can one sleep while dancing at the edge of waves? | Michel Faber | ||
| 40dba0c | Someone at work said to me this morning, "Where is God in all this?" I didn't rise to the bait. I can never understand why people ask that question. The real question for the bystanders of tragedy is "Where are WE in all this?" I've always tried to come up with answers to that challenge. I don't know if I can at the moment. Pray for me." | Michel Faber | ||
| e8d08fd | And you know what people immediately start looking for, five minutes after they arrive someplace new? You know what's on their minds? I'll tell you: How are they gonna get laid, and where are they gonna find some mind-altering substances. | laid mind-altering-substances new people | Michel Faber | |
| 33980a1 | There was only so much calamitous change you could hear about, events that rewrote what you thought was general knowledge, before your brain stopped digesting and you clung on to older realities. | Michel Faber | ||
| 36e62f7 | facades of the unknown city loomed up before him, harboring unimaginable wonders--his whole life had been leading up to this. | Michel Faber | ||
| 32d1e2f | Era un hombre de muchos planes, pero de poco fruto. | Michel Faber | ||
| 17f2e8a | La curiosidad es el nombre despectivo que los hombres dan a la sed de conocimiento que tienen las mujeres. | Michel Faber |