Everything I know, everything I put in my fiction, will hurt someone somewhere as surely as it will comfort and enlighten someone else. What then is my responsibility? What am I to restrain? What am I to fear and alter--my own nakedness or the grief ...
Presidente del Instituto de Biotecnología: You know the application of transgenic therapy in humans is strictly forbidden! Robert Ledgard: Yes, I do. And forgive me, but it seems the ultimate paradox. [Dr. Ledgard pauses, staying silent while a symp...
Celie: [lunging towards Albert with a knife] I curse you. Until you do right by me everything you think about is gonna crumble! Sofia: Don't do it Mrs. Celie. Don't trade places with what I been through. Shug: Come on, Celie, let's go to the car. Sof...
Alex: How much currency would a first-rate accountant receive in America? Jonathan: I don't know, a lot, probably, if he or she is good. Alex: She? Jonathan: Or he. Alex: Are there Negro accountants? Jonathan: Yes, there are *African American* accoun...
[last lines] Theodore: Dear Catherine, I've been sitting here thinking about all the things I wanted to apologize to you for. All the pain we caused each other. Everything I put on you. Everything I needed you to be or needed you to say. I'm sorry fo...
Jack Crabb: Do you hate them? Do you hate the White man now? Old Lodge Skins: Do you see this fine thing? Do you admire the humanity of it? Because the human beings, my son, they believe everything is alive. Not only man and animals. But also water, ...
Georg Dreyman: I want to ask you one thing. Minister Bruno Hempf: Anything, my dear Dreyman. Georg Dreyman: Why wasn't my flat wired? Everyone was under surveillance. Why not me? Minister Bruno Hempf: [whispers] You were under full surveillance. We k...
Jean: Nemo, do I matter to you? I'd just like to ask you one question. Did you do it on purpose? I found this on the bedside table. [reads note] Jean: There comes a time in life where everything seems narrow. Choices have been made. I can only contin...
Senior Ed Bloom: I don't know if you're aware of this, Josephine, but African parrots, in their native home of the Congo, they speak only French. Josephine: Really? Senior Ed Bloom: You're lucky to get four words out of them in English, but if you we...
And now I feel like crying, because I really do not understand, and I don't think I will when I'm older either. It was only when I loved Franz I understood the world, and felt happy. When you love, you're praying. Everything was quite clear. I wanted...
When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously. "Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.
You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones
Before 1521 we could have been anything and everything not Filipino; after 1565 we can be nothing but Filipino.
But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.
Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.
There is an empty space next to you in the backseat of the station wagon. Make it the shape of everything you need. Now say hello.
It's love, not the Battle of Thermopylae. You don't have to treat everything like it's a last stand.
And now none of it could be undone. That was the exquisite irony: the act that had undone everything could not itself be undone.
When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
You two are perfect together. And one day . . . one day your children will change everything.
