A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don’t know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn’t be worth reading.

Did time move forward, through people, or did people move through it, like clouds across the sky?

Los siglos pasados tuvieron y siguen teniendo sus propios poderes que el “modernismo” no puede suprimir.

Haksızlık, ihanet, utanç… Artemisia bunları hiç yorulmadan renklere döküyordu. Esin kaynaklarını tarihteki büyük kadınların gururlu mücadelesinde derinleştiriyordu. Yalana karşı koyan, İncil’deki kadın kahramanlar. Zorbalığa başkaldıran, efsaneleşmiş çehreler… Judith tuvallerinde, baştan çıkardığı despot kralı öldürerek halkını...

With every fall of the sun and rise of the moon, I can hear it. The Prophecy. It echoes through the halls of time. It is written on the surface of every star. Even the...

The two smallest boys were cut down first, bodies bounding in different directions as they were shot from opposite sides of the field, like pinballs caught in a tight corner.

Succede, a volte, di provare una grande attrazione per qualcuno che poco ha a che fare con i nostri valori, le nostre abitudini, le nostre passioni. Che sia chimica, follia, istinto animale poco importa. Ciò...

You’ll be civilized or we’ll leave your arse here.” Johan… “Vital Perception

…Love can give you the most exhilarating wonderful highs at times… …Then there will be dives that will take all you have just to hold on… Quote on the Title Page of “Love TORN Asunder

Bukankah aku pernah bilang padamu? Lebih baik aku kehilangan segalanya daripada harus kehilangan dirimu.

A couple hours went by, and the storm began to turn back to the sea. The dark clouds rolled away, leaving white, fluffy ones in their place. We were safe, and the rock in the...

Funny how much we all suffer trying to spare others a bit of pain.

Mum used to say we were the same soul split in two and walking around on four legs. It seems unnatural being born together and then dying apart.

Here’s the truth: I am the female version of a heartbreaker. The one that everyone says is too dedicated to ballet, too self-involved to ever care about anyone else besides herself. I’m the rebel. The...

An author is similar to an actor. They play many characters in their lives—photographer, nurse, dancer, doctor, writer, etc. As an author, you have to learn your craft, know each and every element to become...

Despite how lonely or broken down you might feel, we need you with us helping to make the world better, kinder and safer, especially for the little girls coming up.

For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain – some heroic thing where I set out to conquer. I just sit quietly for a few years, and then...

There’s no better way for a woman to punish a man than to make him sleep away from her.

‘Eighth one this week,’ he said.

Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!… except of course when they are alone.

When I put together a graphic novel, I don’t think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

Life is full of beautiful moments. Live your life to the fullest. And do what youlove.

The one thing is fiction in a novel and the other thing is reality. With fiction you don’t make a fuss – you can ‘beat it’ and there’s never enough. At least in my opinion...

Ce e dragostea? E un v nt nebun care ne dă bătăi de cap, dar fară de care nu putem respira.

Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. It’s discouraging, but necessary...

To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if I can write it; otherwise, I won’t want to.

Spirits didn’t notice death. By the rule of impermanence, what was meant to break simply broke, and there was only the next breaking and the next.

It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.

It is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience…For that reason, reading a novel is potentially a significant act. Because there are so many varieties of human experience, so...

In the temple, I sit on the cool floor next to Grandfather, beneath the stern benevolence of the goddess’s glance. Grandfather is clad in only a traditional silk dhoti–no fancy modern clothes for him. That’s...

Piensa en mí como quien camina en una noche bajo la lluvia, con unaexpresión lúgubre, con las manos manchadas de sangre, sosteniendouna fotografía de las dos personas que murieron por mi causa, unamanzana que representa...

When you’re younger you’re so happy to get some good loving you convince yourself you’re in love, can’t live with out it, and chase the dick like a crack addict after the pipe, or chase...

Just do it. Now.

Strange looks everything for a stranger!

When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The...

To live is to walk beside Death but never join hands. ~ Captain Buck “Slackeye” Roberts

You two are bound to one another. You always have been … and you can’t run away from what you are. No matter where you go, your feelings for her are going to follow you.

The sweet-smelling aroma of the island spices still hung in the air. It filled his nostrils and titillated his appetite all over again. His appetite drove him mad for something much more than food.

Tine-ma aici cat vrei,si cand nu ma mai vrei,spune-mi sa ma duc

She gave herself a hard twist and fell into a sitting position, staring at me with those maggot-filled doll’s eyes.

For a whole new night.

You know what feels really fucking awesome? Loving someone so much that it’s all consuming. Telling that person you love them, even though they refuse to say it back. And then finally hearing them say...

This place is alive,” Sunni said in wonder. “Things are moving. Inside a painting.

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel.

It was just a word. It took nothing from him. It made him feel only as low as he allowed himself to feel. His own brother used it in conversation habitually. But not in the...

There were the usual exhortations to purity – think of the novel not as your opportunity to get rich or famous but to wrestle, in your own way, with the titans of the form –...

Really, Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy… Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that dis-empowers them or one that...

Do we really mean it when we say ‘in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, until death do us part or do we add a silent clause, ‘unless you shame me or...

Si tuvieras que elegir entre la cordura, tu vida tal como la recuerdas, antes que la verdadera inestabilidad, ,qué elegirías como manera adecuada para vivir de un estudioso?

Perasaan bukan mainan, juga bukan kertas yang mudah dikoyak, diremuk sesuka hati…