Amalia Solarzano > Amalia's Quotes

“Maybe she decided to hitchhike, which sounds a bit weird these days, but in those days we used to hitchhike quite a lot. I wasn’t really concerned about her; you hadn’t yet had your Ivan Milats and the sort of people who mean a hell of a lot less people hitchhike these days.”
― Nicole Morris, Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons

“Judaea was not a forgotten backwater in the Roman world. Jews represented about ten percent of the population of the western empire and about twenty percent of the population of the eastern empire. By comparison, Jews represent only about two per cent of the population of the United States today. Never, since the fall of Judah to Babylon in the sixth century BC until the twentieth century had Jews comprised so large a part of any body politic.”
― James Allen Moseley, Biographies of Jesus' Apostles: Ambassadors in Chains

“Nothing remains.  The destruction is complete: love, lives, families, friends, cities, homes – all gone now.  All our efforts to be good, to do the right thing, to act well, to be just and generous are now for naught.  Because juxtaposed against any hope for fairness is wickedness, pure and simple.  In some abstract formulation these things may exist in equal measure, which is to say that the scales balance when taking all things into consideration. But that is fantasy, the stuff of religion, hope beyond all reason. Because for those caught in the whirlwind, in the chaos of manifest evil, despair is all there is. Civilization falls away: everything is pointless now.  Survival requires reciprocity. What then if there is none?”
― John Payton Foden, Magenta

“Was the man a ghost, a figment of my imagination, or something else? I didn’t know, but it was a memory I’d carry with me my entire life, and eventually, I figured out that the man I saw on top of Scafell Pike that day was….”
― Steven Decker, Addicted to Time

“I will cover minor and major human settlements equally, because most of those which were important in the past have diminished in significance by now, and those which were great in my own time were small in times past. I will mention both equally because I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.”
― Robin A.H. Waterfield, The Histories

“لن أتوقف حتى أنجح , فى النهاية لابد من النجاح

لـ أجاثا كريستى
" الرعب القاتل”
― أجاثا كريستى

“This was too much. "I refuse. I absolutely REFUSE to be an onion.”
― Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy

“The house was still as northern woods in winter, when all the creatures are gone.”
― Pat Frank

“Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia

“The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have directed. Section 3 - Treason Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of”
― Founding Fathers, The Constitution of the United States of America, with all of the Amendments; The Declaration of Independence; and The Articles of Confederation, annotated

“...but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Still—there’s no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don’t bring changes.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

“She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to the scrupulous method of good taste and scientific grooming, the trick had been worked by exaggerating defects; she'd made them ornamental by admitting them boldly.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“----quick-witted, an open book in her lap; inside her chest pulses something huge, something full of longing, something unafraid.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See