Nibaldo Calvo Quotes & Sayings

When Boredom comes, it is the time during which discovery is to be made. That is the time during which real effort (purushartha) can be made. But instead, people push it aside. — Dada Bhagwan

You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage. — Anthony Horowitz

The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left. The knowledge that this question was possible: pain that turns finally into emptiness. The knowledge that the same equation applied to everything, more or less. — Roberto Bolano

If anthropological data suggests something short of the ideal, that is not because nothing is universal, but because two universals are in conflict: universal moral knowledge and universal desire to evade it. The first one we owe to our creation. The second we owe to our fall. — J. Budziszewski

In the dark room she sits and in front of her is a plate and on the plate lies a black hunk of bread the size of a deck of cards. The bread has sawdust in it, and cardboard. She takes a knife and a fork, and cuts it slowly into four pieces. She eats one, chews it deliberately, pushes it with difficulty through her dry throat. eats another and another and finally the last one. She lingers especially on the last one. She knows after this piece is gone there will be no more food until tommorow morning. She wishes she could be strong enough to save half of the bread until dinner, but she isn't, she can't. When she looks up from her plate, her sister Dasha, is staring at her. Her plate is long empty.
" I wish Alexander was coming back" says Dasha. " He might have food for us"
I wish Alexander was coming back, thinks Tatiana. — Paullina Simons

I'm not like him, Kara. Whoever he is, I'm not like him."
She ran a hand over his chest, with its mat of golden curls and teased one flat brown nipple, desire already running hot in her veins. "No. No you're not. — Pamela Clare

Ll you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why, it will come. — Alice Sebold

I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood. — Soren Kierkegaard

Love isn't supposed to torment you. If it does, there's probably something wrong. — Yasmin Mogahed

I flinch. "Don't feel sorry for me, okay? Not ever. It makes my skin crawl. — E. Lockhart