“ Tereza keeps appearing before my eyes. I see her sitting on the stump petting Karenin’s head and ruminating on mankind’s debacles. Another image also comes to mind: Nietzsche leaving his hotel in Turi… Milan Kundera
“ Stop. She covered her breast with her own hand. That’s no’ a healer’s touch.His smile was sin incarnate. Ye’ve the right of it there, lass. That’s a lover’s touch. And ye’ve had only the smallest bit… Connie Mason
“ So why did he do it?Cricket rakes a hand through his hair. For the same reason everyone makes mistakes. He fell in love. Stephanie Perkins
“ She soared above the ground, and he kept her tethered to the earth. Without him she would be lost among the clouds. Cassandra Clare
“ Now, early in 1865, the war is over. The North does not especially want free Negroes, it wants trade and wealth. The South does not want a particular interpretation of the Constitution. It wants cheap… W. E. B. Du Bois
“ Noah?A welcome voice - not my mother's, but welcome all the same: Echo. A smile spread across my face. This was too good. Me in a towel, alone in the house with my nymph. I left the bathroom. Katie McGarry
“ No one said we had to spend every waking moment together, but at the end of the day and most of the time during, there is no one I would rather see, no one whose voice I would rather hear, and no one… Julia Quinn
“ My younger self had come back to shock my older self with what that self had been, or was, or was sometimes capable of being. And only recently I’d been going on about how the witnesses to our lives d… Julian Barnes
“ Like the Baron, Mathilde developed a formula for acting out life as a series of roles—that is, by saying to herself in the morning while brushing her blond hair, Today I want to become this or that pe… Anais Nin
“ In reality, though, most of the time we don’t choose the best option—we choose the first reasonable option, a strategy known as satisficing. Steve Krug
“ I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for drea… Jon Krakauer
“ Humans need each other for equilibrium and support. But writers must pull aside to take a quiet walk alone, not just for the sake of serenity but to hear the Voice inside. That is how the storyteller… Patricia Hickman
“ Hoy ya sé que todo nos espía, que nada pasa inadvertido y que aun el papal pintado de las paredes tiene mejor memoria que los hombres. Y no es el buen Dios el que lo ve todo. No, una silla de cocina,… Gunter Grass
