Milagroso In English Quotes & Sayings

They weren't maniacs, and they weren't criminals. They were just ordinary workers at a nuclear power plant. Chernobyl opened an abyss, something beyond Kolyma, Auschwitz, the Holocaust. A person with an axe and a bow, or a person with a grenade launcher and gas chambers, can't kill everyone. But with an atom... — Svetlana Alexievich

I think,' Olympia said slowly, 'that I know you quite well.' She looked down at the deck and added in a carefully mild voice, 'You can be a scoundrel; I know that. You stole from me and betrayed me and lied to me. You have no morals and no ideals; you think of yourself first and you're a coward sometimes on that account.' She hesitated, chewing her lip. 'What people call a coward, anyway. I don't know what cowardice is anymore. I don't know what heroism is.' She looked up. 'But I know one thing, and I learned it from you. I know what courage means. It means to pick up and go on, no matter what. It means having a heart of iron, like they say. You have that. — Laura Kinsale

Heartbreak was never cured; it just went into remission. And here it came roaring back, leaving her feverish and weak and unable to move in the bright afternoon sun. It — Lauren Gilley

She was the only person who he could not dazzle, and he loved her for it. — Maggie Stiefvater

No one else knows the whole story. I was there. I lived through it. — Christine Keeler

I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity. — Ben Lerner

Why are you so upset? You were almost late to the Olympics, and this isn't even close to as important," Rob said.
"Don't throw the Olympics in my face, bitch."
"I'm not your bitch," Rob countered as he stepped on the gas. "I'm pretty sure you're my bitch."
"Sure, eat some come from a guy's ass, and he's all, 'you're my bitch now.' Wouldn't my mother be proud? — Leta Blake

Airplanes have dulled and desensitized us; we are encumbered, like lovers in a suit of armor. — Paul Theroux

At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other. — William Adams

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes. — Andre Dubus III