Page 78 Quotes

“Steinbeck wrote about the tide pools and how profoundly they illustrate the interconnectedness of all things, folded together in an ever-expanding universe that's bound by the elastic string of time. He said that one should look from the tide pool to the stars, and then back again in wonder.”
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything

“You can put law on paper but that don't make it right.”
― August Wilson

“I hear of this love so often that I think I know it, but I don't feel it, and I myself don't know why,' he fretted. 'These people who love and then the girlfriend goes away - they cut their arms with a blade, they put a cigarette butt out on their hand, they won't sleep, they won't eat, they'll sing - they must have different hearts than mine.”
― Katherine Boo

“If your name isn't known, then it's a very lonely feeling.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“Bazen, işinin gerektiği kadarını yapmakla elinden gelenin en iyisini yapmak arasında bir teşekkür kadar mesafe olabilir.”
― Tamer Demirdelen, İkna - Oyun Şimdi Başlıyor!

“The blade, freed by the half-turn, floated after him, shining, drawing a fan of red droplets in its wake. The streaming raven-black hair floated in the air, floated, floated, floated...
The head fell onto the gravel.
There are fewer and fewer monsters?
And I? What am I?
Who's shouting? The birds?
The woman in a sheepskin jacket and blue dress?
The roses from Nazair?
How quiet!
How empty. What emptiness.
Within me.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

“Do you think the symbol of the rhinoceros is there to create a comic effect?” Gabrielle asked.

“Yes,” said Michelle, smiling the proud smile of someone who has found the truth.

“You’re right,” said Gabrielle. Pleased with their own boldness, the two girls looked at each other, and the corners of their mouths quivered with pride. Then, all of a sudden, they emitted short, shrill, spasmodic sounds very difficult to describe in words.”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting