Johnny Buteux > Johnny's Quotes

“Pay attention,” Gareth said to Moxie. “If it comes down to a choice of gettin’ captured or killed by Saxons or brigands, dead is less bad,”
― Hank Quense, Moxie's Problem

“Halloween es la festividad más misteriosa, carnal y diabólica que existe. Yo me reía de aquellos que celebraban Halloween cambiando su identidad por una noche, y de los que se llamaban brujos por bailar delante de una fogata en un campo o un bosque bajo la luna llena. Para mí eran tontos, como niños jugando con fósforos, sin darse cuenta de que aquello con lo que jugaban tenía poder para matar. Yo conocía el verdadero significado de esa negra festividad: Halloween es la noche en que uno puede contar con el mayor número de poderes demoníacos para matar y destruir a las personas que odia. La”
― John Ramirez, FUERA DEL CALDERO DEL DIABLO

“To leave the marriage behind is to step out of the spotlight. It means fading into normalcy, returning to ordinary life, perhaps an impossible admission for women who have built their egos on being one member of a powerful team. To divorce might be to admit defeat for women who have come to see themselves as extraordinary and who circulate with other famous and history-making figures.”
― Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

“The Great Socialist himself is said to have embezzled one billion rupees from the Darkness, and transferred that money into a bank account in a small, beautiful country in Europe full of white people and black money.”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

“The tree man eulogized them by screaming, 'And now get the hell out of here with your tree, you lousy bastards.'

Francie had heard swearing since she had heard words. Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies; they made a kind of dialect. The phrases could mean many things according to the expression and tone used in saying them. So now, when Francie heard themselves called lousy bastards, she smiled tremulously at the kind man. She knew that he was really saying, 'Good-bye--God bless you.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Some people had too much power and too much cruelty to live. Some people were too horrible, no matter if you loved them; no matter that you had to make yourself terrible too, in order to stop them. Some things just had to be done.
I forgive myself, thought Fire. Today, I forgive myself.”
― Kristin Cashore, Fire

“Love is never any better than the lover.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“(...) about one of his schools he said, "I would make the following criticisms. First, too much attention to marks. Second, too much religion. Third, no time for me to develop my own interests. Fourth, group discipline may be imposed unfairly".”
― John Gunther, Death Be Not Proud

“What is real for us is what we observe and recognize. We create our own experiences by our recognition and imagination, and we modulate the energies with our emotions.”
― Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

“After endless cajoling, rationalizing, ego stroking, and outright begging—all to no avail—Isa decided that what Marco didn’t know wouldn’t hurt him.”
― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

“Smile if you want to. Grimace if you’re told to.”
― C. Toni Graham

“I watched her undress with moonlight shivering across the room from behind sheer curtains that moved with the currents from the hearth fire.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

“The Black Prince is entombed at Canterbury Cathedral. His effigy reads: “Such as thou art, sometimes was I, Such as I am, such thou shalt be, I thought little on hour of death, So long as I enjoyed breath, On earth I had great riches, Land, houses, great treasure, Horses money and gold, But now a wretched captive am I, Deep in the ground, lo I lie, My beauty great, is all quite gone, My flesh is wasted to the bone.”
― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

“There comes a time when the heaping up of calamities brings on uncontrollable nervous laughter - when, after a final blow from fate, we decide to treat it all as a joke.”
― Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Forever is composed of nows.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Students exit history textbooks without having developed the ability to think coherently about social life. Even”
― James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

“It’s gonna hurt, now,” said Amy. “Anything dead coming back to life hurts.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“In the former Austrian vagabond the conservative classes thought they had found a man who, while remaining their prisoner, would help them attain their goals. The destruction of the Republic was only the first step. What they then wanted was an authoritarian Germany which at home would put an end to democratic “nonsense” and the power of the trade unions and in foreign affairs undo the verdict of 1918, tear off the shackles of Versailles, rebuild a great Army and with its military power restore the country to its place in the sun. These were Hitler’s aims too. And though he brought what the conservatives had lacked, a mass following, the Right was sure that he would remain in its pocket—was he not outnumbered eight to three in the Reich cabinet? Such a commanding position also would allow the conservatives, or so they thought, to achieve their ends without the barbarism of unadulterated Nazism. Admittedly they were decent, God-fearing men, according to their lights.”
― William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany