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“We are all glass soldiers.”
― Steven Galloway, Ascension

“Never underestimate the value of knowing another's language. It can be far more powerful than swords and arrows.”
― Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock

“C'est quand vos yeux sont clos qu'ils voient le mieux.”
― Sacha Sperling

“Life might be easier if you give in a little, but it's better if you hold onto something so hard you can't give it up.”
― Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones

“Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?”
― Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock

“You're going to go living. Because living is the challenge, Josie. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take eighty years and you do something in that time, whether it's giving birth to a baby or being a housewife or a barrister or a soldier. You've accomplished something. To throw that away at such a young age, to have no hope, is the biggest tragedy.”
― Melina Marchetta

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
― Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever it is you are longing for.”
― Jane Urquhart, Changing Heaven

“Sometimes you have to let the world end, so you can build a new one.”
― Leanne Hall, Queen of the Night

“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
― Rebecca West

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them?”
― Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock

“I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.”
― Sonya Hartnett, Surrender

“Life is lived on the inside. What's outside doesn't matter.”
― Sonya Hartnett, Surrender

“What I know is that billions of people have walked this earth, and billions more will. The vast majority are born without talent and with an ordinariness that is astonishing. Then there's a select few who are given a mighty gift, whose talent is breathtaking. And in between there's people like us, who can do something to a slightly impressive degree. We're not the largest group, but we are the most wretched, because we can recognize greatness, but we will never touch it.”
― Sonya Hartnett, Wilful Blue

“A man breaking his journey between one place and another at a third place of no name, character, population or significance, sees a unicorn cross his path and disappear. That in itself is startling, but there are precedents for mystical encounters of various kinds, or to be less extreme, a choice of persuasions to put it down to fancy; until--"My God," says a second man, "I must be dreaming, I thought I saw a unicorn." At which point, a dimension is added that makes the experience as alarming as it will ever be. A third witness, you understand, adds no further dimension but only spreads it thinner, and a fourth thinner still, and the more witnesses there are the thinner it gets and the more reasonable it becomes until it is as thin as reality, the name we give to the common experience... "Look, look!" recites the crowd. "A horse with an arrow in its forehead! It must have been mistaken for a deer.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“Si vous traduisez Shakespeare, il faut traduire aussi librement que Shakespeare écrivait.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“It is easy to blur the truth with a simple linguistic trick: start your story from "Secondly." Yes, this is what Rabin did. He simply neglected to speak of what happened first. Start your story with "Secondly," and the world will be turned upside-down. Start your story with "Secondly," and the arrows of the Red Indians are the original criminals and the guns of the white men are entirely the victims. It is enough to start with "Secondly," for the anger of the black man against the white to be barbarous. Start with "Secondly," and Gandhi becomes responsible for the tragedies of the British.”
― Mourid Barghouti, I Saw Ramallah

“Men sen säger du att skillnaden blir att jag vet att det är jag som har rätt, att jag är vit och han svart. Men det säger du ju bara för att du är på min sida. Skulle inte Blinkfyren kunna vara lika övertygad som jag? Är inte världen full av folk som har käpprätt fel men är behårt övertygade? Tror du att alla nazisterna låtsades vara nazister? Av flera miljoner nazister måste det ju ha funnits många som var bergfast övertygade om att dom hade rätt, lika bergfast övertygade som du och jag är om att vi har rätt och Blinkfyren fel.”
― Jan Guillou, Ondskan

“Vad hade Gandhi kunnat göra mot HItler?”
― Jan Guillou, Ondskan

“Att säga att man respektera 'en lärare' är meningslöst eftersom 'lärare' bara är en titel. Frågan är om man kan respektera människan bakom titeln.”
― Jan Guillou, Ondskan

“Men sen säger du att skillnaden blir att jag vet att det är jag some har rätt, att jag är vit och han svart. Men det säger du ju bara för att du är på min sida. Skulle inte Blinkfyren kunna vara lika övertygad som jag? Är inte världen full av folk som har käpprätt fel men är behårt övertygade? Tror du att alla nazisterna låtsades vara nazister? Av flera miljoner nazister måste det ju ha funnits många som var bergfast övertygade om att dom hade rätt, lika bergfast övertygade som du och jag är om att vi har rätt och Blinkfyren fel.”
― Jan Guillou, Ondskan

“När jag var liten gav min farsa mig stryk om jag spillde mjölk, Leo. Det lärde mig inte att låta bli att spilla. Det gjorde mig bara rädd för mjölk.”
― Fredrik Backman (Author)