The world is going crazy, Karl. And when the world is crazy, a sane man is never okay." from The Berlin Boxing Club
The bands were everywhere, close and faraway, a blend of discordant noise. He passed close to one now, a half-dozen drummers pounding away, a sergeant leading them in a rhythm that was no rhythm at al...
There is not a lost piece of yourself that can't be found in a good novel.
Cease, daughter! said the priest at last in a trembling voice. I cannot grant absolution, no priest could...
Of all the things I dislike, I hate women worst.
Positive thoughts (expectations) can change perspective, transform behaviors, and attract good fortune.
You are intelligent, you are diplomatic, you are beautiful, and you are and always will be...[he kisses her]...MINE...
You may be surprised what we use our dreams to do, how we drape them over our sight and carry them like amulets to protect us from evil spells.
Some day...as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater than any fact.
...homosexuality is the direct result of chastity in women.
Hagnon fixes a value to everything. It occurs to Alexander that the man would probably sell his mother for an obol and consider it a deal.
Sie denkt: Sie sagen einfach nur Worte und was sind Worte anderes als Geräusche, die diese Männer aus Atem formen, gewichtslose Dämpfe, die sie in die Küchenluft schicken, wo sie sich auflösen und ste...
She had wanted more than she could have.She had wanted him, and more... she had wanted him to want her.In the name of something bigger than tradition, bolder than reputation, more important than a sil...
Life's temptations have the purpose of putting our spiritual integrity to the test. To yield to them, however, gives one a precarious and tormented satisfaction. But the worst temptations are those we...
Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artifact of your mental illness.
After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.
I am looking through a lace curtain at a dead man's feet. I am ten years old, the mist is rising on a fall morning in 1944 in Sawyer, Georgia, and I am standing on a front porch painted gray with whit...
Be proud. Be proud you are a soldier. Be proud you are a woman.
Where have they gone? Wherever magicians used to go. Behind the sky. On the other side of the rain.
If you can write, you can read. And if you can read, you can better understand the world and its different societies. Knowledge is the key to destroying prejudice and individual hate, which always cul...
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