Dee Bellman > Dee's Quotes

“Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“Tightening his embrace around his wife and little Theo, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to continue being worthy of the faith you have in me.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

“Black once tried to tackle a Humvee head-on. This was worse”
― William Kely McClung, Black Fire

“Oh, so now I'm getting in trouble for things I didn't tell anyone I didn't know?”
― Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley

“It’s the opportunity of a lifetime,” said Ito finally, who had been keeping very quiet
up to this point.
“Indeed. How much will it cost?” asked Brown
“About twenty million Interplanetary Credits,” said Demba. “A modest investment for
a man of your means.”
“Indeed,” said Brown again. That was all the money he had, which started to strike
him as strange, when his thoughts were interrupted.
“We’ll arrange a visit to the mine,” said Ito. “Show you the place itself.”
“Indeed,” said Brown. Or had he said that? The strange waking memory he had fallen
into started to become repetitive. Reality started to flow back in.
Diamonds, thought Brown. All those diamonds in that mine.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

“Forgive me darling, for having to abandon you, for having to make the ultimate sacrifice for a kingdom.”
― Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin, Sacrifices Beyond Kingdoms: A Provocative Romance Torn Between Continents and Cultures

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat little houses and scratched the paint on new cars and beat up well-tended children. It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“She treated me like a real person. She didn’t see me as just a colour”
― Malorie Blackman, Noughts & Crosses

“Her cake is a failure, but she is loved anyway. She is loved, she thinks, in more or less the way the gifts will be appreciated: because they have been given with good intentions , because they exist, because they are part of a world in which one wants what one gets.”
― Michael Cunningham

“I carefully read each letter myself. Some of them are serious in tone, discussing the meaning of life, invoking the supremacy of the soul, the mystery of every existence. And by a curious reversal, the people who focus most closely on these fundamental questions tend to be people I had known only superficially. Their small talk had masked hidden depths. Had I been blind and deaf, or does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature? Other”
― Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

“Y, como no me era ajeno el arte de la guerra, le hablé de cañones, pistolas, balas, pólvoras, espadas, bayonetas, batallas, sitios, retiradas, ataques, minas, contraminas, bombardeos, combates navales, buques hundidos con un millar de hombres, veinte mil muertos de cada parte, gemidos de moribundos, miembros volando por el aire, humo, ruido, confusión, muertes por aplastamiento bajo patas de los caballos, huidas, persecución, victoria, campos cubiertos de cadáveres que sirven de alimento a perros, lobos y aves de rapiña; pillajes, despojos, estupros, incendios y destrucciones.”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels