Menjual Barang Quotes & Sayings

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved. — Arthur Lydiard

But I can't manage to grow up and change shape. I'm still tiny, and staying that way, perhaps because I know the secret that everyone pretends to be unaware of, perhaps because I know that deep down we're all tiny. — Delphine De Vigan

When fortune comes, do not enjoy all of it; when advantage comes, do not take all of it. — Lisa See

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading — Vladimir Nabokov

He has studied all the live strings of the human heart in the same way as one studies the veins of a dead body. — Mikhail Lermontov

Lying between the sheets, she felt different; her body had turned into bread dough, dough that's been kneaded and pounded till it's grey, lumpen, no yeast in it, no lightness, no prospect of rising. Her arms lay stiff by her sides. When, finally, she drifted off to sleep, she dreamt she was on her knees in a corner of the room, trying to vomit without attracting the attention of the person who was asleep on the bed. Her eyes wide open in the darkness, she tried to cast off the dream, but it stayed with her till morning. — Pat Barker

And in the end the logical thing would be to give up and I would give up if I were laboring for a reader today, but as there is in the world not a single human who can speak my language; or, more simply, not a single human who can speak; or, even more simply, not a single human; I must think only of myself, of that force which urges me to express myself. I repeat: there is something I know, there is something I know, there is something ... — Vladimir Nabokov

Grief, I discovered, feels not so very different from defeat. And — J.P. Delaney