Love Quotes

[O]n general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.

Dan Brown

The “pursuit of happiness” is such a key element of the “American (ideological) dream” that one tends to forget the contingent origin of this phrase: “We holds these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are e...

Slavoj Zizek

He smiled and bent forward, a hand on each knee, his truculence gleaming through his smile like a stone under water.

Paula Fox

Under the seeming disorder of the old city, wherever the old city is working successfully, is a marvelous order for maintaining the safety of the streets and the freedom of the city. It is a complex order. Its essence is intricacy of sidewalk use, br...

Jane Jacobs

The process doesn’t end there. Stories are more than just images. As you continue in the tale, you get to know the characters, motivations and conflicts that make up the core of the story. This requires more parts of the brain. Some parts process e...

Love

...I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

Charles Dickens

Beat me, hurt me, fight me and I’ll bounce back, but be nice to me? I folded quicker than a banker in a high-stakes poker game.

Pippa DaCosta

Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Any dog can bed down a lot of females. But only a real man can love one woman for a lifetime.

Lisa Smartt

What was the point of even having a conversation when words couldn't be trusted?

James Dashner

But if you cross me again Akil, so-help-me, I’ll find a way to kill you this time.” His eyes lit up at the prospect, as though he’d accepted a challenge I didn’t even know I’d laid down. “I’d expect nothing less.” Demons; only they ca...

Pippa DaCosta

The lust for chaos wrenched reason from my mind. She wanted the power I’d called before. She wanted to burn it all; to slice open the veil and summon the fires of hell to dance for her. She burned for it, and so did I." ~ Muse

Pippa DaCosta

O problema é desenhar a vida em forma de montanha, dar um cume à vida e querer atingi-lo como se o seu sentido dependesse desse acto. O sentido da vida, a existir, há-de ser como o sentido de uma montanha, e não muda por lhe chegarmos ao topo ou ...

Nuno Camarneiro

Her face was smeared with mud and blood and ash. Just another bit of debris in the wreckage of war.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Mahlia… understood Doctor Mahfouz and his blind rush into the village. He wasn’t trying to change them. He wasn’t trying to save anyone. He was just trying to not be part of the sickness. Mahlia had thought he was stupid for walking straight in...

Paolo Bacigalupi

La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate.

Giovanni Boccaccio

[W]e talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannise over them too; we are fond of having a large superfluous establishment of words to wait upon us on great occasions; we think it looks important, and sounds well. As we are not particular ...

Charles Dickens

A man was leaning idly against an elm. ... The man, who towered over the poet even at his slanting angle, too old for a student and too worn for a faculty member, stared at him with the familiar, insatiable gleam of the literary admirer.

Matthew Pearl

Come se nel cuore della natura di uno scrittore ci fosse la purezza. Il cielo aiuti un simile scrittore! Come se Joyce non avesse annusato oscenamente le mutande di Nora. Come se nell’anima di Dostoevskij non avesse mai bisbigliato Svidrigailov. Ne...

Philip Roth

Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them.

Kelli Jae Baeli