It takes skill to win a battle, but brains to win a war.

A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement

The sun does not abandon the moon to darkness.

English. That was where I met him.

Life is a great novel, discovering your calling is the far better sequel

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants – the whole system’s wrong, and she must challenge it.

Besides it’s not as though the prisoner can truly die, any more than a character in a novel can. You can always flip back to the first page, can’t you?

Pembalasan paling indah yang sangat pedih adalah lewat novel.

The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck

Novels are written word by word. If you can write a word, and then another word, you can write a novel—assuming your novel will be two words long. Here’s a two-word romance novel: I do....

Life was transparent, literature opaque. Life was open, literature a closed system. Life was composed of things, literature of words. Life was what it appeared to be: if you were afraid your plane would crash...

Try everything; listen to everyone. Follow no one. You are your own story guru!

Rahasia itu, Nduk,” kata Eyang lagi, “seperti kain lurik. Kita pakai di badan kita seperti ndak apa-apa di permukaan, tetapi hangatnya menyelimuti tubuh. Itu akan membuat kita ora tergantung kepada siapapun. Jangan mudah takut.

I’m Tiny And My Reach Is Limited. I Can Give YOU Only What I Have And Surely When I Give, I Don’t Keep Anything For Me. To YOU, It’s Nothing Probably As YOU’ve Got Everything....

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

The most important thing I came to tell you is that I want your oath that you will keep an open mind…about everything that may seem impossible.

There are only two things in life,’ Bergé said. ‘Love and beauty.

It used to be that a novel would put you among people, tell you a story or stories, give you some sense of what it might be like to see a different cut-out and perspective...

People talk about survival. What they mean is killing the other guy.

She said, ‘It is filled with all the words for how I want you.

Probably not, but we can pretend.

Sentosa. Sounds romantic all right. So this is the progress you’re talking about?

But perhaps the greatest escapism of all is to take refuge in the domesticity of the past, the home that history and literature become, avoiding the one moment of time in which we are not...

He now realized that right and wrong were intertwined notions. His arms could not differentiate between just and unjust causes. They only knew that they were empty.

Qu’est-ce que le roman, en effet, sinon cet univers où l’action trouve sa forme, où les mots de la fin sont prononcés, les êtres livrés aux êtres, où toute vie prend le visage du destin....

Harta itu kayak pistol. Kalo kita sembarangaan ngasih pistol ke orang, tanpa dibimbing cara pemakaiannya dengan bijak, benda itu bisa merugikan pemegang dan orang di sekitarnya

I’m gonna sit around here, stay away from there I’m gonna make pretend I just don’t care. I could get up, go get her back or maybe I’ll just let her go.Something beyond Love…lines from...

This was a Darkness born of fire.

Kids never jumped head first from the top ledge. Never. It seemed forever beforeStoney came back to the surface. Most of the white bubbles had already disappeared.

Ironically, in life, you sacrifice everything you love in the name of love”~ the motto of the romance novel Cupcakes and Cologne.

As we stood there, chest high in water, I felt like I was in the middle of my own romance novel.

an unhappy childhood.” Redwing had enjoyed a fine time growing up, but he wondered if this whole expedition was unfolding more like a novel, and would be blamed on one person, one character, the guy...

Apa kamu tidak bisa menerima takdir kalau kita akan selalu pergi bersama?

A poem can’t do its work if you only read snippets of it.

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

Don’t Rush Up The Stairs, you Just Might Fall. Take it One Step At A Time!

Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.

Irma, she said. But I had started to walk away. I heard her say some more things but by then I had yanked my skirt up and was running down the road away from her...

We live in a world where there is such a clear definition of what a girl should be that it takes almost no effort at all to completely hate ourselves.

Be quick, but don’t hurry.

I was somewhere between angry and turned-on.

I heard them tearing at it. It was the sound of mortality.

The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards death.

Talk to me. Say something, anything,” he pleaded quietly as if he was trying to tame a wild animal.”There’s nothing to say.”He looked up and lowered his eyebrows on his eyes. “Why did you kiss...

His mind is like that. On the inside, where he never smiles.

When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie’s crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time.

El miedo no te apaga; sino que te despierta.

aku tak habis mengerti, mengapa orang-orang gampang sekali mengata-ngatai pemerintah. Kalau bicara, sekehendak hatinya saja. Apa mereka kira gampang mengelola negara? Mengurusi ratusan juta manusia? Yang semuanya tak bisa diatur. Kalau mereka sendiri yang disuruh...

Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque...