147 quotes found
“When Tito was born, I was writing my fifth novel. That was how I saw my future: living in Venice and jumping from novel to novel. Tito's birth changed all that.”
“Author describes one monarch's impressive table but conveys a contemporary's observation, "the weightiest thing at dinner was the conversation".”
“Never base motivation or fear, entirely.”
“He was a stylist, not a thinker. He spent time trying to say things in as complicated a way as possible.”
“But that's life. That's your education. A series of opportunities and missed opportunities. Exams and grades and blue books and blue balls and majors and minors and liberal arts and liberal minds. ...”
“Nothing important in this world is measured by grades. Intelligence, character, integrity, success, happiness - do you want these things, or do you want to struggle with the arbitrary difference be...”
“Its not goodbye, Sam. Its see you in two days. I promise she said stroking his hair away from his dimpled cheek.Im counting on it. You will be missed, he said as he put her hand on his chest near h...”
“When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.”
“O young girl, throw yourself again into the water so that I might have a second time the chance to save the two of us!" A second time, eh, what imprudence! Suppose, dear sir, someone actually took ...”
“Say a woman is more than the sum of her parts and I'll listen. Say she is more than fruit and blossom and branch and I'll nod my head yes. But say the body does not want and I will fall to the floo...”
“The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent.”
“Told ya you were special.”
“The sudden urge to join the fray was intoxicating.Aaron Corbet”
“And I couldn't tell my mother to fuck off.I'd be killed.”
“We have no need of God to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men are enough, with our help.”
“Who, cher monsieur, will sleep on the floor for us? Whether I am capable of it myself? Look, I'd like to be and I shall be. Yes, we shall all be capable of it one day, and that will be salvation.”
“...if a mans thirst is quenched by power, then all other desires are of no worth to him.”
“Pain comes with the decision of choosing what I have to offer now, but this same pain is needed to shape you for the greater destiny ahead.”
“But always remember, I am watching your every move and will be with all of you until the end of all things. Do not let your heart be troubled with the turmoil of the future. Be sure of one thing: t...”
“Our trust goes beyond the darkness.”
