Willem Frederik Hermans Quotes & Sayings

He took her by the shoulders and pulled her closer to him, his fingers knotting in the fabric of her dress. Even more than in the attic, she felt caught in the eddy of a powerful wave that threatened to pull her over and under, to crush and break her, to wear her down to softness as the sea might wear down a piece of glass. — Cassandra Clare

Rushing off to the Ministry the night that he had died. Harry clung to this notion, because it — J.K. Rowling

You'll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart. — Anna Held

There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded. — Mark Van Doren

Animals learn death first at the moment of death; ... man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates a feeling of uncertainty over his life, even for him who forgets in the business of life that annihilation is awaiting him. It is for this reason chiefly that we have philosophy and religion. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Anybody can make 'good' music. I make terrible music, which is what makes it so different, and therefore better. — Thom Yorke

Are you okay?"
She looked up, her eyes glistening. "I just ... I ... "
"Hey." He stood up and rounded the picnic table, sitting next to her on the bench. He wrapped his
arm around her, the feeling of her, so warm and female and way too tempting, sending a shock of
pleasure through him. "Hey, don't ... don't do that."
"I'm pregnant. It's a pregnant thing," she said.
"I've never seen you do it."
"I don't often."
"I can tell. — Maisey Yates

We can because we believe and we do it with heart. — Annisa Widi Astuty