Brighton Rock Colleoni Quotes

#1. Compassion is where peace and justice kiss

Meister Eckhart

#2. There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.

William Drummond

#3. Baba dropped the stack of food stamps on her desk. "Thank you but I don't want," Baba said. "I work always. In Afghanistan I work, in America I work. Thank you very much, Mrs. Dobbins, but I don't like it free money." ... Baba walked out of the welfare office like a man cured of a tumor.

Khaled Hosseini

#4. She put out her hand and touched his forearm, as she would have touched some piece of porcelain or sculpture, just for the sheer animal pleasure of feeling its shape and curve beneath her fingertips.

Rosamunde Pilcher

#5. There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.

Randy Pausch

#6. I know you so well, and you'll feel guilty, simplifying everything, putting the emphasis here or there according to your interest.

Hanif Kureishi

#7. Delving into the past had unveiled a cruel lesson - that in the book of life it is perhaps best not to turn back pages; it was a path on which, whatever direction we took, we'd never be able to choose our own destiny.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon