"Dont look to the sky for fireworks when you can watch them light up in the eyes of all the people passing by."

“When movies tend to start to preach to me, I tend to shut them off, whether I agree with the message or not. I don't think the job of art is to preach, I think it's to ask questions and make people aware of differences and different ways of looking at things. That's what I want to do, anyway. Whether I'm successful or not, that's up to history.”

“I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.”

“At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, comprising eleven nations with a population of 100 million people.”

“I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had very little chance of seeing any.”

“Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will”

Source : Donna Leon (2009). “Acqua Alta: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery”, p.132, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

“First we only want to be seen, but once we’re seen, that’s not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.”

Source : "Station Eleven: A novel". Book by Emily St. John Mandel, 2014.

“In reality, at the end of World War II, America imposed democracy at the point of a bayonet on Japan and Germany, and it has proved a resounding success in both countries. The problem with liberals is that they never give bayonets a chance.”

“One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen years, eleven months, twenty-three days old. Next door, William Halloway was thirteen years, eleven months, and twenty-four days old. Both touched toward fourteen; it almost trembled in their hands. And that was the October week when they grew up overnight, and were never so young any more...”