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Favorite quotes from books and life. -  (Header from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court: Sandy)

[hemingwayheroine]

Everything had gone right with ne since he had died, but how I wished there existed someone to whom I could say I was sorry.

Graham Greene, The Quiet American

[hemingwayheroine]

Sooner or later...one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.

Graham Greene, The Quiet American

[hemingwayheroine]

As long I continue to live I’ll always discover something new about myself.

Haruki Murakami; What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

[hemingwayheroine]

One of the privileges given to those who’ve avoided dying young is the blessed right to grow old.

Haruki Murakami; What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

[hemingwayheroine]

If I go for a time without seeing water I feel like something’s slowly draining out of me.

Haruki Murakami; What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

[hemingwayheroine]

I would like death to come with due warning, so that I could prepare myself. For what? I didn’t know, nor how, except by taking a look around at the little I would be leaving.

Graham Greene; The Quiet American

[hemingwayheroine]

That was my first instinct — to protect him. It never occurred to me that there was a greater need to protect myself. Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it...

Graham Greene; The Quiet American

[hemingwayheroine]

Yes. They killed him because he was too innocent to live.

Graham Greene; A Quiet American

[hemingwayheroine]

Another #resist read, absolutely fantastic. #resistreadathon

[purplebuddhaquotes]

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

Martin Luther King Jr. (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[hemingwayheroine]

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

Naomi Klein; No Is Not Enough

[hemingwayheroine]

The full passage was too worth posting.

[hemingwayheroine]

As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about.

Milan Kundera; The Unbearable Lightness of Being

[hemingwayheroine]

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

Ernest Hemingway; The Old Man and the Sea

[hemingwayheroine]

Once more she heard the golden horn of betrayal beckoning her in the distance, and she knew she would not hold out. She sensed an expanse of freedom before her, and the boundlessness of it excited her.

Milan Kundera; The Unbearable Lightness of Being

[hemingwayheroine]

Wouldn’t it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men started going wild inside, like the animals here, and still looked like men so that you’d never know which were which?

Lucy - Prince Caspian, C.S. Lewis

[hemingwayheroine]

And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.

Frances Hodgson Burnett; The Secret Garden