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At twelve o’clock, when Aureli-ano, Jos had bled to death and Carmelita Montiel found that the cards showing her future were blank, more than four hundred men had filed past the theater and discharged their revolvers into the abandoned body of Captain Aquiles Ricardo. A patrol had to use a wheelbarrow to carry the body, which was heavy with lead and fell apart like a water-soaked loaf of bread. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
His hair was short and parted accurately in the middle, and he had all the look of an American person who would be likely to begin his signature with an initial, and spell his middle name out. Mark Twain
Ken Follet quote: "A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start..."
A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out. Ken Follet
What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought? Jodi Picoult
Tove Jansson quote: "I am fond of lovely old words like 'locomotive'."
I am fond of lovely old words like 'locomotive'. Tove Jansson
You mean,” said Caspian, “that we might be just–well, poured over it?” “Yes, yes,” cried Repicheep, clapping his paws together. “That’s how I’ve always imagined it–the World is like a great round table and the waters of all the oceans endlessly pouring over the edge. The ship will tip up–stand on her head–for one moment we shall see over the edge– and then, down, down, the rush, the speed– C. S. Lewis
People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restrictsyour thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic. Haruki Murakami
George Santayana quote: "We laughed at the same things, and we liked the same things. ..."
We laughed at the same things, and we liked the same things. What more is needed for agreeable society? George Santayana
Can you not persuade him that 'his religious phase' is just going to die away, like all of his previous phases? I assume that the creature has been through several of them before (they all have) and that he always feel superior and patronizing to the ones he has emerged from, not because he has really criticized them, but simply because they are in the past. C. S. Lewis
He's nothing fierce or terrible or filled with light. He's like us, sometimes we can't even tell him apart. Sometimes we're the ones who try to save him. He's there to show us who we are. Human beings aren't gods. We makes mistakes. Alice Hoffman
People tell their children there are no monsters in the world. They tell them that because they believe it, or they want the child to feel safe. But there are monsters, Luke, all the more frightening because they look like people. Nora Roberts
Going your own way shouldn't stop them from being happy with you."My brother and my sisters, they're clerks and parents and settled sort of people. I'm a puzzle, and sooner or later when you can't solve a puzzle, you have to think there's somthing wrong with it. Else there's something wrong with you."You ran away," she murmured. He wasn't sure he liked the phrase, but nodded. "In a sense, I suppose, and as fast as I could. What's the point in looking back?"But he was looking back, Keeley... Nora Roberts
She took his hand, fumbled with the door herself. Breathless, she would have stumbled if he hadn't caught her. "Teach me to wear heels in the damn stable," she muttered. "My legs are shaking."With a nervous laugh she turned back to him. Her legs stopped trembling. At least she couldn't feel them. All she could feel now was the unsteady skipping of her heart.He was staring at her, his eyes intense. When she'd turned his hands had reached up to frame her face. "You're so beautiful."She'd never... Nora Roberts
Jeanette Winterson quote: "August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every..."
August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don't you? 92 degrees even in the shade. Jeanette Winterson
She knew she was being unfair...; she knew she was acting like the most vulgar of women, the kind that is out to cause pain and knows how. Milan Kundera

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