179 quotes found
“Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act. Nothing arouses a passi...”
“I started off for home, where I planned to recruit a good book and hide away from the world.”
“[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.”
“You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.”
“I guessed she must be, at most, twenty, but there was something about her manner that made me think she could be ageless. She seemed trapped in that state of perpetual youth reserved for mannequins...”
“A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical capacityor none at allwith which to analyze it and judge how to channel it. Throughout history socie...”
“Youth is like a fickle girlfriend. We can't understand or value her until she goes off with someone else, never to return.”
“In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell.”
“I would have preferred someone else to have been in charge of rescuing this story, but once again life has taught me that my role is to be a witness, not the leading actor.”
“As he took them in his arms, the crying of the babies permeated the night like a trail of blood calling out to a predator.”
“And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.”
“You talk as if Bea were a trophy.''No, as if she were a blessing,' Fermin corrected.”
“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.”
“All business opportunities stem from someone else's inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem.”
“Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.”
“God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil....”
“All I know is that once Julin told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air and that she lived with Satan him...”
“But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred.”
“... And what am I to do?""Well, that depends. Do you like the girl?""Like her? I don't know. How do you know if...?""It's very simple. Do you look at her furtively and feel like biting her?""Biting...”
“Its impossible to initiate a rational dialogue with some one about beliefs and concepts if he has not acquired them through reason. It doesn't matter whether we are looking at God, race, or nationa...”
