- "I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." - Sir Winston Churchill
- "Après la pluie, le beau temps. After troubles, calm comes back." - French proverb
- "Bäume wachsen nicht in den Himmel. Trees do not grow into the sky." - German proverb
- "What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? It's the too-huge world vaulting us in, and it's goodbye, but we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies." - On The Road by Jack Kerouac
- "'What I need is a cocker spaniel or something,' she said, 'somebody that looks like me.'" - Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut by J.D. Saligner
- "You don't forget the face of the person who was your last hope." - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- "I have a special place in my heart for cripples, bastards, and broken things." - A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
- "She always saw through him, as if he were just another window. She always felt that she knew everything about him that could be known--not that he was simply, but that he was knowable, like a list of errands, like an encyclopedia. He had a birthmark on the third toe of his left foot. He wasn't able to urinate if someone could hear him. He thought cucumbers were good enough, but pickles were delicious--so absolutely delicious, in fact, that he questioned whether they were, indeed, made from cucumbers, which were only good enough. He hadn't heard of Shakespeare, but Hamlet sounded familiar. He liked making love from behind. That, he thought, was about as nice as it gets. He had never kissed anyone besides his mother and her. He had dived for the golden sack only because he wanted to impress her. He sometimes looked in the mirror for hours at a time, making faces, tensing muscles, winking, smiling, puckering. He had never seen another man naked, and so had no idea if his body was normal. The word 'butterfly' made him blush, although he didn't know why. He had never been out of Ukraine. He once thought that the earth was the center of the universe, but learned better. He admired magicians more after leaning the secrets of their tricks." - Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
- "Hell is other people." - No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
jul 9 2011 ∞
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