Raquel > Raquel's Quotes

“In the complete portrait of Warren William there is no legacy, only a career. What we are doing when we see him on screen is simply watching a man work. If he has a legacy at all, it is not in his craft, but in the incredible success he had in remaining true to himself.”
― John Stangeland, Warren William: Magnificent Scoundrel of Pre-Code Hollywood

“This place is alive," Sunni said in wonder. "Things are moving. Inside a painting.”
― Teresa Flavin

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
― Atwood H. Townsend

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.”
― Pablo Neruda

“...the prospect of soon losing her companion seemed to give force to every sweet quality and charm which Edith possessed.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“We are possessed by nobody, not even by ourselves.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
― William Blake

“Nanny had thought she might lose the child from her grief. At night when she rolled over in the bed and went to drape her leg across Gabriel’s, finding him gone, the ache in Nanny’s chest moved up to her throat, then down to her womb.”
― Gigi Amateau, Come August, Come Freedom: The Bellows, the Gallows, and the Black General Gabriel

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“On the morning after the daring theft of a priceless James Ensor painting from the Grand Palais in Paris, I was allowed to leave the Les Halles Police Station after only a few hours of questioning.”
― Mark Zero, The French Art of Revenge

“This was a crime of passion, but unlike most crimes of passion, it had been meticulously and diabolically well-planned.”
― Mark Zero, The French Art of Revenge

“There are only two things in life,' Bergé said. 'Love and beauty.”
― Mark Zero, The French Art of Revenge

“Bergé’s yelling had attracted the attention of everyone in the Kibati hall: champagne flutes stopped halfway to heavily painted lips, eyes widened, massive diamonds groaned scornfully in their settings. It was a stationary riot.”
― Mark Zero, The French Art of Revenge

“It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.”
― Robert Benchley

“How can you be kissing at a time like this? Have you no respect for the dead?”
― Mark Zero, The French Art of Revenge

“And I had just kissed my ex-girlfriend, who had cried, while my current girlfriend was in jail. So far, it had not been my best day.”
― Mark Zero, The French Art of Revenge

“In French culture, the best way of buying time or getting off the hook entirely in a thorny personal situation is to claim that it’s complicated. The French did not invent love, but they did invent romance, so they’ve had more time than any other culture on earth to refine the nuances of its language.”
― Mark Zero, The French Art of Revenge

“Never run upstairs when someone’s chasing you. Don’t try to quick-draw a man who already has his gun out. Never light a match in the dark in a strange building. Half of staying safe is just keeping your head and being prudent.”
― Mark Zero, The French Art of Revenge

“The French have a penchant for absolutism, for thinking that things are all one way or all another, which is why their politics are marked by a general inability to compromise and why they tend to hold their personal opinions until the bitter end, even after they have clearly lost an argument.”
― Mark Zero, The French Art of Revenge

“I congratulate you on your success stealing the painting.”
― Mark Zero, The French Art of Revenge

“When you’re used to being in dangerous situations, you develop a sixth sense about your surroundings, about where possible enemies might be lurking, how many steps it will take to reach the next corner on a dead run, the best hiding places if bullets start to fly...”
― Mark Zero, The French Art of Revenge

“... she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold.”
― Mark Zero, The French Art of Revenge

“It wasn’t playing both sides of the fence – it was betting against yourself but still playing to win – and it encapsulated everything absurd and paradoxical that I loved about the French.”
― Mark Zero, The French Art of Revenge

“The unfed mind devours itself.”
― Gore Vidal

“He must have been one of those men who doesn't really notice such things and leaves it to others to sort out any awkwardness or imperfections. This is not because they are thoughtless or because they consider themselves too high and might, it's simply that their brains don't register these practicalities or the world around them.”
― Javier Marías, Los enamoramientos

“The worse thing that can happen to anyone, worse than death itself, and the worst thing one can make others do, is to return from the place from which no one returns, to come back to life at the wrong time, when you are no longer expected, when it's too late and inappropriate, when the living have assumed you are over and done with and have continued or taken up their lives again, leaving no room for you at all.”
― Javier Marías

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
― Bill Watterson

“Doubt is the mechanism by which faith evolves.”
― Rachel Held Evans, Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions