5 o’clock bookclub (Cristina) > 5 o’clock bookclub's Quotes

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
― Primo Levi

“It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot”
― Agatha Christie

“It isn’t true, is it, Daniel, that music can tame the beasts? Yet, in the end, a song lives.”
― Maria Àngels Anglada, The Violin of Auschwitz

“If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.”
― Giacomo Casanova

“one who makes no mistakes makes nothing”
― Giacomo Casanova

“Be the flame, not the moth.”
― Giacomo Casanova

“A life with love is happy. A life for love is foolish. A life of if only is unbearable. In my seventy-eight years, I have had all three. Grandmother would often say, “So it is with sorrow. So it is with happiness. It will pass.” But even in my old age, when I close my eyes, I can still see the distant flicker of a thousand tiny lights.”
― Ana Johns, The Woman in the White Kimono

“To understand your direction, you must know both your roots and your reach.”
― Ana Johns, The Woman in the White Kimono

“Dar eram tânăr și nebun. Și, mai mult decât atât, eram o javră tâmpită, un idiot cretin, un ultim jeg de om, o flegmâ adunată de pe stradă. Așa m-am simțit mult timp după și cu câteva luni înainte de a o pierde. Cu câteva luni înainte de a o lăsa să plece, de fapt.”
― Emilia Toma, O numaratoare inversa

“Începe numărătoarea inversă, numai că în cazul meu nu a durat 10 secunde ca la box, ci 10 ani. Greșala de atunci și toată agonia din timpul anilor care au mai urmat m-au făcut ceea ce sunt astăzi, m-au transformat în ceea ce sunt în momentul în care scriu asta... o stafie secată de greșelile trecutului său.”
― Emilia Toma, O numaratoare inversa

“Nu gândesc diferit nici acum, după ce nu mai e în viața mea. Deși am fost un netot și cu Vanda, în relația pe care am avut-o, ea mi-a fost diminețile, ea mi-a fost nopțile, ea mi-a fost zilele, ea mi-a fost răsăritul și apusul, ea mi-a fost totul. Mă legasem de ea ca un nebun.Îmi lua tot răul, toate gândurile, toată realitatea pe care ajunsesem să le trăiesc în mine.”
― Emilia Toma, O numaratoare inversa

“The war which almost every soldier hated in 1918 has slowly become, for those who survived intact, the great adventure of their lives. They came back to the everyday life that had seemed a paradise to them when they lay in the trenches and cursed the war. Now it has become commonplace again, filled with cares and vexations, and at the same time the war has gradually risen on the horizon—far off, survived, and for that very reason, without their intention and almost without their cooperation, changed, transfigured, falsified. Mass murder has become an adventure from which they have escaped. The despair is forgotten, the misery glorified, and death, which did not strike them, has become what it is most of the time to the living—something abstract and no longer real. It only gains reality when it strikes close by or reaches out and seizes you.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, The Black Obelisk

“Where they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.”
― Eoin Dempsey, White Rose, Black Forest

“The Aryans were a made-up race of blond supermen, which the Nazis had convinced the German people they belonged to.”
― Eoin Dempsey, White Rose, Black Forest

“What is an Aryan?” he would ask the group. “Blond like Hitler!”—who had dark hair. “Tall like Goebbels!” someone else would say—Goebbels was five feet five. “A perfect athletic specimen like Goering!”—who was a disgusting, fat slug.”
― Eoin Dempsey, White Rose, Black Forest

“Culture” became a dirty word.”
― Eoin Dempsey, White Rose, Black Forest

“When a man dies from a bullet entering his chest, it's a homicide.
When a man dies from a meteorite landing on his head, it's a tragedy.
Don't use bullets. Use meteorites
Don't commit a homicide. Commit a Tragedy.
-Guy McMaster”
― Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer

“After all, when the behavior of another person leaves you no choice but to kill them, their murder is simply involuntary suicide.”
― Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer