Debora M | Nasreen > Debora's Quotes

“E la profezia di Anubi stesso, quella sussurrata al suo orecchio presso Luxor, un giorno qualsiasi dell’anno 2020, aveva finito con l’avverarsi. Perché le aveva detto: “verrà il giorno in cui gli Dei pregheranno gli umani di pregarli, e allora tu sarai Dea e io schiavo.”
― Giulia Calligola, The Judgment of Persephone

“La morte non corre. La morte ha un appuntamento e lo rispetta. Non arriva in anticipo. Si può dire, quasi, che la morte non uccida: la morte prende con sé le anime quando smettono di essere vitali.”
― Giulia Calligola, The Judgment of Persephone

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Era successo davvero, alla fine. Un dominio equo eppure emotivo, giusto eppure impulsivo come solo la natura sa essere. Da quel giorno, la morte profumava di fiori. La Primavera era regina Infera.”
― Giulia Calligola, The Judgment of Persephone

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“[...]vero quel che si dice di te», disse Persefone, il suo petto che si sollevava e abbassava. «Non ascolti nessuna preghiera. Non offri nessuna pietà.» Il volto di Ade rimase impassibile. «Nessuno prega il dio dei morti, mia signora, e quando lo fanno è troppo tardi.»”
― Scarlett St. Clair

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“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

“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

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

“Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?"
"Yes," said Harry stiffly.
"Yes, sir."
"There's no need to call me "sir" Professor."
The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
"After all this time?"
"Always," said Snape.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Albus Severus," Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving to Rose, who was now on the train, "you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Rabbrividì di nuovo. Ormai era lucida e poteva ricollegare i brandelli in una sequenza dal senso compiuto. Era davvero quella, la verità? Il mostro non aveva commesso la strage, ma la strage aveva creato il mostro?”
― Cecilia Randall, Millennio di fuoco: Seija

“E'stata reale prima di tutti noi. Siamo solo nati ottocento anni troppo tardi per poterla incontrare.”
― Cecilia Randall, Hyperversum

“Il pensiero di essere considerato da tutti un'altra persona lo fece sentire disperatamente solo.”
― Cecilia Randall, Hyperversum

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“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

“Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Jesus!" Luke exclaimed.
"Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.”
― Cassandra Clare

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Kane si mosse lentamente, senza perdere il contatto visivo, e gli prese una mano tra le sue, portandosela al volto e strusciando piano la guancia contro di essa. «Ho capito che non ho paura di essere toccato da te,» percorse con il naso una delle linee che solcavano il palmo ruvido, inspirando il suo odore, «che mi piace quando lo fai.»
Mathias aprì la bocca, come se faticasse a respirare, nonostante non ne avesse bisogno. Poi, quando Kane schiuse le labbra e lambì l’interno del suo pollice con la punta della lingua, una sorta di gemito gli uscì dalla gola. «Sai cosa stai facendo?» gli chiese con un sussurro.
Kane sorrise. «Ti sto chiedendo di toccarmi,» leccò anche l’indice, «di farmi sentire vivo di nuovo,» il medio, «di avere cura di me,» l’anulare, «di non farmi male,» si fermò con le labbra a un soffio dal mignolo, «ti prego, non farmi male,» baciò la punta del dito a occhi chiusi. «Sono così stanco di soffrire.»
«Mai.» Se un ringhio poteva essere dolce, quello di Mathias lo fu. «Non ti farei mai del male.»”
― Aurora R. Corsini, Pardus

“She took the facts and in a natural way charged them with tension; she intensified reality as she reduced it to words, she injected it with energy.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“She wrote, in the last pages, of feeling all the evil of the neighborhood around her. Rather, she wrote obscurely, good and evil are mixed together and reinforce each other in turn. Marcello, if you thought about it, was really a good arrangement, but the good tasted of the bad and the bad tasted of the good, it was a mixture that took your breath away. A few evenings earlier, something had happened that had really scared her. Marcello had left, the television was off, the house was empty, Rino was out, her parents were going to bed. She was alone in the kitchen washing the dishes and was tired, really without energy, when there was an explosion. She had turned suddenly and realized that the big copper pot had exploded. Like that, by itself. It was hanging on the nail where it normally hung, but in the middle there was a large hole and the rim was lifted and twisted and the pot itself was all deformed, as if it could no longer maintain its appearance as a pot. Her mother had hurried in in her nightgown and blamed her for dropping it and ruining it. But a copper pot, even if you drop it, doesn't break and doesn't become misshapen like that. "It's this sort of thing," Lila concluded, "that frightens me. More than Marcello, more than anyone. And I feel that I have to find a solution, otherwise, everything, one thing after another, will break, everything, everything.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“We’re the light against the darkness, never forget that Nazafareen”
― Kat Ross, The Midnight Sea

“Sometimes it is those who appear the hardest that are the most brittle underneath”
― Kat Ross, The Fourth Element Trilogy