💬 Quotes
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"Tom Sawyer was always that way; he liked to do things in style, and he liked to spring a surprise."
— Tom Sawyer, Detectiveby Mark Twain
"It is the prerogative of kings to be ungrateful, but it is the duty of gentlemen to be faithful."
— Twenty Years Afterby Alexandre Dumas
"We are growing old, Athos; our legs are stiff, our arms are heavy, and the time of illusions has passed."
— Twenty Years Afterby Alexandre Dumas
"A man is never completely miserable so long as he still has a friend who understands him."
— Twenty Years Afterby Alexandre Dumas
"God has his own ways of bringing about justice, and often uses the very instruments of crime to punish the criminals."
— Twenty Years Afterby Alexandre Dumas
"Politics are like a game of chess: every piece has its movement, its value, and its risk."
— Twenty Years Afterby Alexandre Dumas
"The truth is rarely as interesting as the fiction we create about ourselves."
— The Art Of Seductionby Robert Greene
"To seduce someone, you must first create a sense of dissatisfaction with their current life."
— The Art Of Seductionby Robert Greene
"Mystery is the soul of seduction; reveal too much and you destroy the desire to know more."
— The Art Of Seductionby Robert Greene
"The greatest obstacle to seduction is your own ego. You must become what the other person needs you to be."
— The Art Of Seductionby Robert Greene
"When you are too available, you lose your value; people only prize what is difficult to attain."
— The Art Of Seductionby Robert Greene
"I’m not a monster. I’m just a man who knows what he wants and refuses to let it go."
— Haunting Adelineby H. D. Carlton
"You think you’re being hunted, little mouse, but you’re being worshipped."
— Haunting Adelineby H. D. Carlton
"Darkness isn’t just the absence of light; it’s a living, breathing entity that waits for you to slip."
— Haunting Adelineby H. D. Carlton
"Fear is a fickle thing. It can paralyze you, or it can be the fuel that keeps you alive when everything else fails."
— Haunting Adelineby H. D. Carlton
"I’ll burn the world down before I let anyone else touch what belongs to me."
— Haunting Adelineby H. D. Carlton
"Some secrets are buried for a reason, but the truth always finds a way to rot the surface."
— Haunting Adelineby H. D. Carlton
"The sun is not a source of light, but a blinding weight that flattens the conscience until only the immediate sensation remains."
— Camus, L'étrangerby Gerald V. Banks
"To exist without the anchor of social expectation is to be an alien in one’s own life, a spectator to one's own breathing."
— Camus, L'étrangerby Gerald V. Banks
"Justice, in its pursuit of meaning, insists that a man must have a motive, even when the soul offers nothing but indifference."
— Camus, L'étrangerby Gerald V. Banks