All nights are dark days, because night is simply a badly lit version of day.
Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.
Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.
Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.
I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.
The Penultimate Peril
It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is the one who is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right. Right?
The Reptile Room
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Things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
Fate is called as such, for it cannot be changed, nor can it be reversed. It can only but be accepted.
May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face and may the wings of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.
Fred Young in Blow
17In Italy, you know you've found a truly authentic restaurant when they don't have an English menu. In India, it's when there are no utensils and you must eat with your hands.
Dinner's a very intimate activity. It requires a level of connection and eye contact, that sex just doesn't. Call me old-fashioned, but I need to have sex with a girl at least three times before I'll even consider having dinner with her.
Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother - Season 6 Episode 3
1Marshall: "Let the dinnertainment begin!"
Barney: "That reminds me there's this other restaurant we should try sometime. What they do is, they cook you a meal, in a little room called a 'kitchen'."
Barney: "That reminds me there's this other restaurant we should try sometime. What they do is, they cook you a meal, in a little room called a 'kitchen'."
Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother - Season 7 Episode 3
1Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.
A living poem had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.
Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.
The world is dark, and light is precious.
Come closer, dear reader.
You must trust me.
I am telling you a story.
Come closer, dear reader.
You must trust me.
I am telling you a story.
Reading is a hobby, but for some of us, it's an escape from the difficulties we face. To all of you who escape into books, I want to thank you for escaping into this one.
To Michelle - my love and life's partner and Malia and Sasha - whose dazzling light makes everything brighter.
Barack Obama - A Promised Land
1"Oh yes, time flies and before you know it you're old," said Pippi. "Come autumn I'll be ten, and I suppose I'll be past my prime then."
It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.
I want you to help them open... because I need you to watch me give you the very last piece of my heart.
This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.
The Elves made many rings; but secretly Sauron made One Ring to rule all the others, and their power was bound up with it.
Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.
Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.
She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.
"Lost something?"
"Yes, my mind."
"Yes, my mind."
"It's no use fretting for what you can't get," croaked the raven. "Does being angry make any difference? Be sensible! What can you do about it?"
There are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.
The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of his room. All was drowned by its silence. But Jacob loved the night. He felt it on his skin like a promise. Like a cloak woven from freedom and danger.
If you live to be hundred, I hope i live to be hundred minus one day. So I never have to live without you.
If you see German soldiers, don't panic. They are here to help.
Donald Tusk (about German soldiers helping with floodings in Poland) - September 2024