Quotes of: Des-moines Keyword

I shouldn’t even exist. Neither should they. What’s the difference between destroying me and destroying them?” - Lexia Graham

Reckoning

Give a boy - ANY boy - enough time, and he WILL eventually pick his nose!

From the Top

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.

The Thirteenth Tale

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

The Thirteenth Tale

Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.

The Thirteenth Tale

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

The Thirteenth Tale

Politeness. Being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.

The Thirteenth Tale

...but he is a man, hence cannot see how tiresome it is to have explained at length what one has already fully understood.

The Thirteenth Tale

She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.

The Thirteenth Tale

People were endlessly good, wise, and gentle in the midst of all the hurry, the conferences, the dinner invitations, the smell of disinfectant, the meeting reminders.

Totta

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

The Thirteenth Tale

I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.

The Thirteenth Tale

We are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past?

Those Who Save Us

Clearly the secret of happiness...is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.

The Tenderness of Wolves

Kalau Islam berarti menyerahkan diri, maka kita semua hidup dan mati dalam Islam - Goethe

Unity and Variety in Muslim Civilization

Kalau dalam bidang keagamaan sendiri terdapat keragaman dalam kesatuan, maka dalam kebudayaan Islam sudah semestinya pula terdapat keragaman - Zia 'Gokalp (1875-1924)

Unity and Variety in Muslim Civilization

Kebudayaan mempunyai sifat-sifat khusus, nasional, sederhana, dan timbul dengan sendirinya - Zia 'Gokalp (1875-1924)

Unity and Variety in Muslim Civilization

No one could ever truly be free as long as they loved, and life wasn't worth living without love. So freedom? Overrated.

Unraveled

I fear that one day I will no longer understand desperation, and with that, I will slowly stop listening to what others have to say.

Unraveled

I assumed I would be better off telling you about this, rather than waiting for the entire thing to blow up in my face.

Unraveled

No one is as brave, as adventurous or as skillful as D'Artagnan, without at the same time being inclined to be a dreamer.

Vicomte de Bragelonne