It would be so nice if something made sense for a change
Jeg liker ikke tordenvær, for den saks skyld heller ikke jordskjelv, storm, skybrudd og den slags overdrivelser.
'the truth.' Dumbledore sighed. 'it is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should be therefor be treated with great caution ... '
Angry people are not always wise.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
HERMIA: I frown upon him, yet he loves me still. HELENA: O that your frowns would teach my smiles such skill!
" Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel? She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea."
LYSISTRATA
Forsofne Bakkostufs! Du verken kan få stå
eller forstå, og bør vel da som ekte mannfolk
gå bort og kjøpe deg en kiste. Du har råd!
Den sommeren Sophia opplevde en ny trassalder, var det regnfullt og kaldt og lite hyggelig å være ulykkelig utendørs. Derfor søkte hun sin ensomhet på loftet. Hun satte seg oppi en pappeske og stirret på slåbroken, hun sa forferdelige og knusende ting høyt, og slåbroken hadde meget vanskelig for å svare igjen.
It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right. Right?
Dumbledore: "After all this time, Severus?" Snape: "Always."
Til å begynne med forsøkte jeg å være meg selv, men jeg holdt snart opp. Det er for anstrengende og nytter ikke stort. Bare å sitte og vente tar på kreftene. De vet jo selv hvor elendig luft det er der oppe på kontorene.
Tar de livsløgnen fra et gjennomsnittsmenneske, så tar de lykken fra ham med det samme.
Doktor Relling
Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say about experts and imports and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons.
´Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine - If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years, as I could in a day. And Cathrine has a heart as deep as I have; the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough, as her whole affection could be monopolized by him - Tush! He is scarcely a degree dearer to her than her dog, or her horse - it is not in him to be loved like me, how can she love in him what he has not?´
"You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that he must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying."
LYSANDER
Content with Hermia! No; I do repent
The tedious minutes I with her have spent.
Not Hermia but Helena I love:
Who will not change a raven for a dove?
Act 2, scene 2
HERMIA
By all the vows that ever men have broke,
In number more than ever women spoke,
In that same place thou hast appointed me,
To-morrow truly will I meet with thee.
Act 1, scene 1
GREMIO:
O this learning, what a thing it is!
Act 1, scene 2