Tiburtina Quotes

#1. In the end, of the one thousand fifty-six who had left, in a body, from the Tiburtina station, a total of fifteen came back alive.
And of those dead, the luckiest were surely the first eight hundred and fifty. The gas chamber is the only seat of charity, in a concentration camp.

Elsa Morante

#2. Everybody is Other in Maupin.

Christopher Bram

#3. If only beauty could explain the world away.

Gary Shteyngart

#4. Anyone would love him, but I do not know if anyone could love him as much as I do.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#5. Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.

James Lee Burke

#6. Please," said Lirael ... "I think I would like to work in this Library."
"The Library," repeated Sanar, looking troubled. "That can be dangerous to a girl of fourteen. Or a woman of forty, for that matter.

Garth Nix

#7. Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

Hesiod

#8. I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.

Kyle Schmid

#9. Caviar is strange and disgusting. That popping texture, its like Space Dust for gourmets.

Marian Keyes

#10. I had not asked to be rescued, true, but that did not mean I didn't need saving.

Jodi Picoult

#11. They say the level of civilization is proportionate to the degree of cleanliness of the skin. Assuming that man has a soul, it must, in all likelihood, be housed in the skin.

Kobo Abe

#12. The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a manner that is unfathomable.

Confucius

#13. I believe love is always eternal. Even if eternity is only five minutes.

Sandra Cisneros

#14. As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment.

Kamal Ahmed

#15. And I can't wait to see what your mother thinks about all of this, too." I paused, shaking my head. "No one stops to consider their mothers. It's a pity." "You

J.R. Rain

#16. Art was my little private pleasure. Nobody had seen my art, not even my parents. Andy didn't know about it. My dream was to become a publisher, not an artist lost in New York.

Stephanie Witter