Quotes of: Des-moines Keyword

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

A Guide to Men

How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge of the memoirist.

Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction

Llorarlo es lanzar un puñado de vida a los ojos de la muerte. Sabes que sólo la cegará durante unos instantes, pero te alivia.

Geuren

God too, has sinned, that's what I used to think. He looked down on this blazing hell, and he remained silent. (2007: 142)

The Guest

The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the spell can never be broken.

Heart's Blood

Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely, not to hope at all, than to open the heart to a hope that is impossible.

Heart's Blood

Lulu twirled in front of Jolene, banging into the seat. her eyes sparkled in that I'm-either-going-to-scream-or-fall-asleep-any-second kind of way.

Home Front

If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all and you must not be afraid.

The Book of Atrus

He carefully maintained the blasé air of one who had been here before and had been incredibly well dressed that time too

The Bane Chronicles

Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate." "I'm a very open-minded sort of fellow!

The Bane Chronicles

To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted.

The Bane Chronicles

Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable.

Blade of Fortriu

[Maisie]:...going out for luncheon with a gentleman is definitely not the same as going out to dine in the evening. [Billy]: You get more grub at dinner, for a start -

Birds of a Feather

Fancy 'avin' to say you work for the Murder Squad, eh, Miss? Don't exactly warm folk to you, does it?

Birds of a Feather

When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God has mercy?

Beneath the Lion's Gaze

I don’t feel old. I just feel like someone young who has something wrong with him.

The Blind Man's Garden

How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother?

Beneath the Lion's Gaze

Tatiana: "Why did we spend two days fighting when we could have been doing this?" Alexander: "That wasn't fighting, Tatiana. That was foreplay.

The Bronze Horseman

Are you saying that he deserves to die?' I asked, chilled. 'We all deserve to die,' he answered.

The Bewitchments of Love and Hate

It follows that I must accept myself for what I am before I can deliberately change it.

The Buddhist Way Of Life

People don’t want novelty – they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds blown. There is an insatiable appetite for affirmation.

Broken Monsters