Linwood Biesheuvel

“He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“Infine (sì, di nuovo un'ultima volta) devo ringraziare quel rompiscatole del mio amico a quattro zampe, senza il quale non ci sarebbe questo libro. Sarebbe felice di sapere che il suo debito per tutti i materassi strappati, le pareti sventrate e gli oggetti di valore inghiottiti è stato adesso pienamente saldato.”
― John Grogan, Io & Marley

“I honestly can't remember much else about those years except a certain mood that permeated most of them, a melancholy feeling that I associate with watching 'The Wonderful World of Disney' on Sunday nights. Sunday was a sad day - early to bed, school the next morning, I was constantly worried my homework was wrong - but as I watched the fireworks go off in the night sky, over the floodlit castles of Disneyland, I was consumed by a more general sense of dread, of imprisonment within the dreary round of school and home: circumstances which, to me at least, presented sound empirical argument for gloom.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Хорошо говорит тот, кто постоянно в этом практикуется («Мальтийский сокол»)”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon