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“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.
Or you don't.
Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature.
I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.
People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.
I want to be first. I know that’s selfish, and maybe unattainable, and maybe shallow. But I just want to come first with someone. If that’s wrong of me, so be it. I’ll be wrong. But that’s the way I feel.
Eric was sitting on my bed, his face buried in his hands. He looked up at me as I entered, and he looked shocked. Well, no wonder, what with the very thorough takeover and traumatic changing of the guard. Sitting here on your bed, smelling your scent,” he said in a voice so low I had to strain to hear it. Sookie . . . I remember everything.” Oh, hell,” I said, and went in the bathroom and shut the door. I brushed my hair and my teeth and scrubbed my face, but I had to come out.
He picked some unwise words. Saying, “I’ll enjoy killing you for my lord”, is just not the way to make my acquaintance.
I knew, as sure as I knew my name, that tomorrow he would send me another coat, in a big fancy box, with a big bow on it. It would be the right size, it would be a top brand, and it would be warm.
Dere er fortsatt unge og tenker ikke på det som skal komme. Dere har hele livet forran dere. Men en vakker dag blir en av dere nødt til å vandre først. Det er den dagen den andres hjerte knuses, og man lærer at det hadde vært best om man aldri hadde elsket.
But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?
Peeta sighs. “Well, there is this one girl. I’ve had a crush on her ever since I can remember. But I’m pretty sure she didn’t know I was alive until the reaping.”
District 12:Where you can starve to death in safety.
Amazon could make recommendations on the fly, ("Oh, you're getting the Complete Dummy's Guide to Fencing? How about adding a copy of Waking up Blind: Lawsuits over eye Injury?")
There is no luck in the Society. I nod. Of course. I should know better than to use such an archaic, inaccurate term. There's only probability now. How likely something is to occur, or how unlikely.
Is it hard to sleep when you know the you are almost at the end? Do you not want to miss a moment, even unremarkable?
None of us have work or leisure hours. Today is for Grandfather. Tomorrow, things go back to normal and we will move on and he will be gone.
-Kan du si meg hvor lang tid det tar å bli født? Spurte Ernest Madigan. Augusta Flyktet. -Mine foreldre hadde vært gift i ti år da jeg dukket opp på skueplassen, sa Madigan. - Så du kan jo si at det tok meg ti år å bli født. Men det går fortere nå for tiden.
For awhile I taped soap operas and watched them at night when I thought I might be forgetting what it was like to be human. After a while I stopped, because from the examples I saw on those shows, forgetting humanity was a good thing.
You won't find a vampire in a Ford Fiesta
I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.