If there were any way at all of sheltering from Death's blows-even by crawling under the skin of a calf-I am not the man to recoil from it. -Montaigne's Essays
If there were any way at all of sheltering from Death's blows-even by crawling under the skin of a calf-I am not the man to recoil from it. -Montaigne's Essays
Just as, before her husband's death, she had confided in her friends about her love affair, so she chatted about it after his death, with the arresting sergeant.
And did Mister-r Stuart retur-rn next day, as he said in's note?
Flags in the Dust by William Faulkner
"To that devout woman, M. Myriel was both her brother and her bishop, her friend in nature and her superior in the Church."
Les Miserables
~Pardon the rather extremem bump. Didn't catch the date till it was too late.
'We're leaving,' Baba said.
Is not this your son, my Lord?
Shakespeare's King Lear
"Maar eerst moet hij helemaal bedaard zijn."
(Marcellus Emants, Liefdeleven, 1916)
"But first he must be completely calm."
(Marcellus Emants, Living Love Life, 1916) As yet untranslated, but I think he would have liked the title.
All it needs from you is that you take care not to trample on it.
"...a ballad about the troubles in our native land."
James Joyce - Dubliners
'How gloomier is the contrast
(Of human nature there!')
Queen Mab - Percy Shelley
I'll tell you some truth, just one, for today; far more than the truth.
Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks. - Holy Bible New International Version.
He discovered that Duer had enthusiasm fot two composers, called Bach and Beethoven, presumably Germans, and that he himself did not yet comprehend all the ways of the world. -Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
That is, if mere empty words can prove it, it stands proved--and in this way, without committing himself, he gives the reader a chance to infer that there isn't any extant evidence but words, and that he doesn't take much stock in them.
In Defence of Harriet Shelley, by Mark Twain
There is a vanilla cake with blue wax candles. - the five people you meet in heaven
"He was already halfway across the square when they saw him, on a big hard ridden roan horse, man and beast looking as though they had been created out of thin air and set down in the bright summer sabbath sunshine in the middle of a tired foxtrot-face and horse that none of them had ever seen before, name that none of them had ever heard, and origin and purpose which none of them were never to learn." ...and that's one of the shorter sentences!
William Faulkner Absalom; Absalom!
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"You have some, Papa"
The Road from Cormac McCarthy
I knew that losing to a taco bender would ruin my local celebrity.
"Many a man, however vindictive, would have abandoned all thought of revenge in the face of such difficulty, but Jefferson Hope never faltered for a moment."
A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"The problem was to find an economically sounder reason for consuming transport than a mere affection for primroses and landscapes."
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
solo los libros pueden hacernos soportable y hasta dichosa una larga noche de invierno
(Only books can make bearable and even happy a long winter night)
J.W, Goethe Faust
" He told us about the magic qualities every number has and how number unlock the secrets of the universe"
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
'Mr Harding looked blank and annoyed; there was something in the tone of the young man's voice which told him that the interview was intended to be disagreeable, and he shrank back at finding his kindly greeting so repulsed.'
Anthony Trollope, The Warden, 1855
It is proving quite a delight :), I think I may start on Austen's last now... I have found a substitute :banana:
Well I have two.
One in Spanish and One in American English.
''res os pido un poco de flexibilidad e imaginacion, virtu-''
Lucia Etxebarria, Ya No Sufro Por Amor
''strong as a bull''
John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
"Now her mother was upstairs with the man who had gotten rid of the only other company she had."
Beloved by Toni Morrison
He was happy to hear that Ruya was no longer wandering through the garden of her memories and was back in the real world with everyone else. - The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk
"This, also," Luka added, and tore the note to bits under the vulture's cynical beak, "is the letter of a nasty man, trying to make out that he could make my father ill."-Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie
So said Athene, the daughter of Zeus.
"How many times did you shoot?"
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
"It reminded her of the Russian ballet that Madame Medinsky had taken her to at the Victoria Theater last year."
The Russian Concubine by Kate Furnivall
calling on mrs fujiwara aroused in me much the same mixture of feelings; for she had been amongst my mother's closest friends, a kindly woman with hair that was by then turning grey.
a pale view of hills, kazuo ishiguro.
"She had taken up a w wrong idea, fancying it was a mother and daughter, a son and a son's wife who all lived together, but when it appeared that Mr. Martin who bore a part in the narrative and was always mentioned with approbation for his great good nature in doing something or other was a single man-that there was no young Mrs. Martin, no wife in that case- she did suspect danger to her poor little friend from all this hospitality and kindness, and that if she were not taken care of, she might be required to sink herself forever."
"Emma" by Jane Austen
The sun was just down and to the west lay reefs of bloodred clouds up out of which rose little desert nighthawks like fugitives from some great fire at the earth's end.
From Blood Meridian.
The house's windows flashed brightly, emitting solid beams of blue-white light which appeared quite dazzling under the scarlet sky.
-- The Neutronium Alchemist by Peter F. Hamilton
Thus was a Quaker rais'd to sovereign power.
-Voltaire, Letters Concerning the English Nation
Such thoughts pass through the consciousness so swiftly that they are gone before they can be more than glimpsed, but sometimes like comets trapped at last by a giant sun, they cannot escape and from their stubborn material the mind forges a masterpiece of literatrue, of philosophy or music.
-The Collective Short Stories of Arthur C Clarke
" Like a nun withdrawing , or a child explorng a tower, she went, upstairs, paused at the window, came to the bathroom"
-Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
When we entered the classroom, Angela went to sit at a black- topped lab table exactly like the ones I was used to.
This is from the book Twilight by Stephenie Meyer.
"Does she always devour her victims"
The Witcher EE short book - Andrzej Sapkowski
"Elizabeth said, 'I'm free now, if he would like to come up.'"
(PD James, Deat Comes to Pemberley, 2011)