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“Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

“This acute, “a selfdissolving contradiction,” Marx had very precisely seen and foreseen that “it establishes a monopoly in certain spheres and thereby requires state interference.” This contradiction “reproduces a new financial aristocracy” (how much Marx was right!), no matter it will call itself Communist Party of Soviet Union or DuPont Financial Circle. It reproduces “a new variety of parasites . . . , a whole system of swindling and cheating by means of corporation promotion, stock issuance, and stock speculation.”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

“Jane turned toward the source, following the shift in
energy like a current. At the top of the stone steps stood
a man in light summer clothes: a pale blue shirt, neatly
pressed trousers, polished loafers. He looked every inch
the old-money aristocrat. Relaxed posture. Clean-shaven
face. But no one smiled.”
― D.L. Maddox, THE DOG WALKER: SECRETS: A PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER

“Wadsworth opened the bottle and handed me the cork. What the heck? What do I do now? Take it? Smell it? Lick it? A slight trickle of sweat ran down the nape of my neck as he, Margeaux and Deloris stared at me.
“Uh, what am I supposed to do with it?”
“Take a sniff, sir. Just to make sure.”
“Of course, of course.”
Smelled just fine to me and I looked up at him with a big silly grin on my face as he poured a small amount of wine into my glass. I stared up at him.
“Aren’t you going to fill my glass?”
“Take a sip, sir. Just to make sure.”
“Make sure of what?”
“That it is to your liking, sir.”
It was all I could do from turning red-faced. But I took that sip and smiled again. He then poured the wine into our glasses, nestled the bottle in the silver wine chiller and left. At that point I burst out laughing and my sweet ladies joined me.”
― Behcet Kaya, Appellate Judge

“use the Lord’s name in vain!”
― Jon Scieszka, Funny Business

“I remembered Grandam telling me about an early Old Earth scientist, one Charles Darwin, who had come up with one of the early theories of evolution or gravitation or somesuch, and how—although raised a devout Christian even before the reward of the cruciform—he had become an atheist while studying a terrestrial wasp that paralyzed some large species of spider, planted its embryo, and let the spider recover and go about its business until it was time for the hatched wasp larvae to burrow its way out of the living spider’s abdomen.”
― Dan Simmons, Endymion

“All I need is
backup. He’s the little angel that sits on my shoulder whispering in my ear,
“You can do it!” It’s funny. I’m thirty years old now and I still feel like a little
girl. I’m still looking around to check and see what other people are doing
to make sure I’m not completely different; I’m still looking around for help,
hoping for a quick nudge and a whisper of advice. But I can’t seem to be able
to catch anybody’s eye. Nobody else around me seems to be looking around
and wondering what to do. Why is it that I feel like I’m the only person who
is confused and concerned about the choices I’ve made and where I’m
headed? Everywhere I look, I see people just getting on with it. Maybe I
should just follow suit and get on with it.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“Oh my, the look he gives me could be solely responsible for global warming.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades Freed

“_ სამეფო არმიაში მსახურობდი, შვილო? ჩემი ბრაიანიც მანდ იყო, სამეფო არმიაში, ბრაიან ლედლოუ.
_ ემმმ, ისა… არა, ქალბატონო, ფლოტში ვიყავი, _ მხრებს იჩეჩავს ჯონი.
_ ბრაიენი აღარ დამიბრუნდა, ღმერთმა აცხონოს მისი სული. ოცდაერთი წლის იყო, ჩემი საწყალი ბიჭი. ისეთი კარგი ყმაწვილი იყო, _ ქალს თვალები ცრემლებით ევსება. ხმა მთლად ჩაუწყდა და საწყალობელი გაუხდა საკუთარი უსუსური დარდის გამო. _ იცი, შვილო, ეგ საზიზღარი ტეტჩერი სიცოცხლის ბოლომდე მეძულება. ერთი დღეც არ გავა, ეგ რო არ დავწყევლო.
მერე საფულეს იღებს, ოცგირვანქიან კუპიურას პოულობს და ჯონის ხელში უტენის:
_ აიღე, შვილო, ამის მეტი არაფერი მაქვს, მაგრამ მინდა, რო შენ გქონდეს. _ მერე ქვითინი უვარდება და მიდის, ფეხზე ძლივს დგას; ისეთი გრძნობაა, თითქოს დანით დაჭრეს.
_ ღმერთმა დაგლოცოთ, ქალბატონო! _ მიჰკივის ჯონი მიმავალს. _ ღმერთმა დალოცოს შოტლანდიელი ჯარისკაცები! _ მერე ტაშსაც შემოჰკრავს, სიხარულით აღარაა, რომ მალე ციკლოზინს იყიდის და იმ მეტადონთან ერთად გადაუშვებს, რომელიც უკვე აქვს. ფსიქომეტადონური კოკტეილი: მისი ნეტარებისაკენ მიმავალი ბილეთი, მისი პატარა სამოთხისაკენ, რომელსაც გაუცნობიერებლები დასცინიან და ვერ აფასებენ; ეგენი ვერასოდეს ჩასწვდებიან ამ ნეტარების არსს... ელბოს მთელი ბღუჯა ციკლოზინი აქვს, კიბოს გამო გამოუწერეს. დღეს საღამოს აუცილებლად მოინახულებს იმ თავის ავადმყოფ მეგობარს. ელბოს მაგისი კალიკები სჭირდება, ჯონის კიდე _ მისი ფსიქოტროპულები. ინტერესთა იდეალური თანხვედრაა. დიახაც! ღმერთმა წყალობა არ მოუშალოს შოტლანდიელ ჯარისკაცებს და ბრიტანულ ჯანდაცვას!”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

“I’m teleporting to Atlanta. I’m picking you up, and we’ll go someplace where our families can’t find us. We’ll take Seany. And we’ll let him run laps until he tires, and then you and I will take a long walk. Like Thanksgiving. Remember? And we’ll talk about everything BUT our parents … or perhaps we won’t talk at all. We’ll just walk. And we’ll keep walking until the rest of the world ceases to exist.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“I prefer death to dishonor for me and my child.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

“Then a white flash swallowed the room.
The blast lifted her from the bed.”
― D.L. Maddox, THE DOG WALKER: SECRETS: A PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER

“Sometimes he missed the numbed, walking-underwater feeling feel that the cocktail of narcotics used to give him. But if a situation went down in here, he was going to need all of his wits to get out of it.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

“I will probably be repeating some of the facts, but no matter. Stella Kingsley Zambear’s husband, Professor Pachua Zambear, was found by one of his students on May 8 at 9 AM when she arrived for her appointment with him. I won’t go into the details of how she found him, as I’m sure Mr. Kingsley filled you in on those details.”
“Yes, he did. And I understand that Mrs. Zambear was arrested because her DNA was identified?”
“Correct. Positive DNA and motive. Theirs was not the happiest of marriages for many reasons. And as you are well aware, the spouse is always the first to be suspected.”
― Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance

“The three policy pillars of this new era are familiar to us all: privatization of the public sphere, deregulation of the corporate sector, and lower corporate taxation, paid for with cuts to public spending.”
― Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

“This is a class in American Literature and not an arena for extreme full-contact judo”
― Vincent Panettiere, Shared Sorrows

“It seems improbable to Tom that such endless space could exist in the same lifetime as the ground that was fought over a foot at a time only a handful of years ago, where men lost their lives for the sake of labeling a few muddy yards as “ours” instead of “theirs,” only to have them snatched back a day later. Perhaps the same labeling obsession caused cartographers to split this body of water into two oceans, even though it is impossible to touch an exact point at which their currents begin to differ. Splitting. Labeling. Seeking out otherness. Some things don’t change.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“Play with murder enough and it gets you one of two ways. It makes you sick, or you get to like it.”
― Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest

“Where religious values might be relative, intellectual values fleeting, moral values ambiguous, and aesthetic values dependent upon an observer, the existence value of any thing is infinite—thus the “mountains in the sun”—and being infinite, equal to every other thing and all truths.”
― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion

“used to”
― Anita Diamant, The Boston Girl