“ ¡Asombrosos viajeros! ¡Cuántas historias nobles leemos en vuestros ojos profundos como lar mar!Mostradnos en los estuches de vuestras ricas memoriasesas joyas admirables, hechas de astros y éteres.¡De… Charles Baudelaire
“ Winter is coming, warned the Stark words, and truly it had come to them with a vengeance. But it is high summer for House Lannister. So why am I so bloody cold? George R.R. Martin
“ While Milke gingerly carried the packet of explosive across the lake, Paskell stood by the port watching. Milke surveyed the landscape with fine calculation, setting down the packet, moving it a few y… Jack Vance
“ When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts, a sign that something has gone wrong in our moral reasoning. Matthew Scully
“ We can either emphasize those aspects of our traditions, religious or secular, that speak of hatred, exclusion, and suspicion work with those that stress the interdependence and equality of all human… Karen Armstrong
“ Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry. Yann Martel
“ Thus the feeling I sometimes have - which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have - that one cannot lie to an aphasiac. He cannot grasp your words, and cannot be deceived by them; but what he g… Oliver Sacks
“ The point is that television does not reveal who the best man is. In fact, television makes impossible the determination of who is better than whom, if we mean by 'better' such things as more capable… Neil Postman
“ Ten minutes passed before his (Ranger's) Mercedes appeared at the end of the street, gliding through the rain, sleek and sinister, water not daring to adhere to the paint finish. Janet Evanovich
“ Snapped abruptly to a realization of how rudely I had been staring, I blushed and said without thinking, I was just wondering if you've ever been kissed by a beautiful young girl? I went still redder… Diana Gabaldon
“ Rowan’s head was still angled as he asked, Your mothers were cousins, Prince, but who siredyou?Aedion lounged in his chair. Does it matter?Do you know? Rowan pressed.Aedion shrugged. She never told me… Sarah J. Maas
“ Religion mattered at a deep level, which must help to explain why none of these people went over to Islam; but in most cases it did not direct their lives, nor did it prevent some of them from cultiva… Noel Malcolm
“ Pero hay una manera de contribuir a la protección de la humanidad, y es no resignarse. No mirar con indiferencia cómo desaparece de nuestra mirada la infinita riqueza que forma el universo que nos rod… Ernesto Sabato
“ Perhaps this is the purpose of detective investigations, real and fictional -- to transform sensation, horror and grief into a puzzle, and then to solve the puzzle, to make it go away. 'The detective… Kate Summerscale
“ One of the two owners, the man who had been sitting in the front room, was stretched out in there asleep, stockinged-toes pointed at the ceiling, one hand backed defensively against his eyes to ward o… Cornell Woolrich
“ One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher. Iain M. Banks
“ Oh. My. God. he murmured as it all ended in a crescendo complete with beautiful sparks and all the bells and whistles of fantastic makeup sex. Five full minutes later he propped up on a an elbow and k… Carolyn Brown
