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.

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

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.

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.

I don’t care what Einstein said about God not playing dice; If he exists, he’s addicted to craps.

Hay tanto de gratitud o de vanidad en casi todos los defectos, que no es cauto abandonarse de ellos.

If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will...

Life really is a story, and every story comes to an end. At the same time, it seems we all leave in the middle of our own stories. It’s who we become that gives the...

When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it’s really hard to finish a novel.

Strange infatuation seems to grace the evening tide. I want you to be free, but it is your sorrow that has made a slave of me… I wish to know how to keep you… You...

I think: perhaps the sky is a huge sea of fresh water and we, instead of walking under it, walk on top of it; perhaps we see everything upside down and the earth is a...

As girls, we will do anything for the person whom we love. We will scale buildings in the rain or run through fire if it means saving our love’s life. There is absolutely nothing more...

That thought probably has occurred to Socrates too.

The sound of him drinking was indescribable—like dirty runoff down a storm drain.

A riverless silence made the air heavy.

Mee and Ow sat in the shade of a mango tree and were doing their make-up. Both of them wore gloves that reached all the way up to their elbows, to keep the tropical sun...

If I had followed every urge I ever had, I would have had much more sex and killed a lot more people

The moment I close my eyes, I see you and sleep vanishes. I’m awake the entire night, revisiting ourmemories together. The night seems to stretch on forever.

It seemed as if the mountains, wave after wave of them, were like the sea, going outward forever into distance, till, far away, they became engulfed in clouds, and joined—mountain and sky in one. Standing...

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...