💬 Quotes

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"Aslan's instructions always work: there are no exceptions."
— The Silver Chair - C. S. Lewisby Lewis,C.S.
"Prawda nie zawsze wyzwala. Czasami po prostu sprawia, że zaczynasz się bać własnego cienia."
— Grzeczna dziewczynka, zepsuta krewby Holly Jackson
"Krew nie jest gęstsza od wody, gdy na szali kładziesz własne bezpieczeństwo."
— Grzeczna dziewczynka, zepsuta krewby Holly Jackson
"Nie szukam sprawiedliwości, szukam końca tej historii, zanim ona pochłonie mnie całkowicie."
— Grzeczna dziewczynka, zepsuta krewby Holly Jackson
"Najgorsze potwory to te, które przy śniadaniu podają ci dżem, a wieczorem wymazują twoje życie z pamięci innych."
— Grzeczna dziewczynka, zepsuta krewby Holly Jackson
"Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and wrong reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with heavenly compassion in your hearts and dying thus around us every day."
— Bleak Houseby Charles Dickens
"A woman's life is made up of such tiny details—little acts of self-abnegation that no one ever counts or remembers, save the angels and God."
— Basil Lyndhurstby Rosa Nouchette Carey
"There are some griefs that dwarf all others, and leave the heart too numb for tears."
— Basil Lyndhurstby Rosa Nouchette Carey
"It is the commonplace days, the grey, uneventful hours, that test the real strength and metal of our souls."
— Basil Lyndhurstby Rosa Nouchette Carey
"Youth is ever impatient of the slow grinding of the mills of God; it would fain leap to the harvest without the weariness of the sowing."
— Basil Lyndhurstby Rosa Nouchette Carey
"Trust is like a fragile porcelain vessel; once cracked by deceit, it may be mended, but the scar remains forever visible to those who look closely."
— Basil Lyndhurstby Rosa Nouchette Carey
"True nobility does not consist in high-sounding titles or broad acres, but in a steadfast adherence to duty when the path is lonely and obscure."
— Basil Lyndhurstby Rosa Nouchette Carey
"The world is full of emperors and Napoleons, but they don't last. The people who have the real power are the ones who make you love them."
— The Song of the Larkby Willa Cather
"Every true artist has to go through a period of isolation, of being driven back upon themselves, to find their own voice."
— The Song of the Larkby Willa Cather
"The desire to create is the deepest need of the human spirit, reaching past mortality toward something permanent."
— The Song of the Larkby Willa Cather
"What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive memory of our own youth?"
— The Song of the Larkby Willa Cather
"It is not ambition that drives them, but a necessity as blind and compelling as the forces that drive the seasons."
— The Song of the Larkby Willa Cather
"The canyon had a way of speaking to one's silences, stripping away the trivial until only the essential truth remained."
— The Song of the Larkby Willa Cather
"In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs."
— The Age of Innocenceby Edith Wharton
"It was the feeling that one had no choice, that one's way was cleared and lined and gauged for one, that was so oppressive and yet so safe."
— The Age of Innocenceby Edith Wharton