"How was it possible that entire lives could change, could be destroyed, and that streets and buildings remained the same, she wondered."

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Source : Tatiana de Rosnay (2007). “Sarah's Key”, p.158, Macmillan

Tatiana de Rosnay

#Building Quotes #Streets Quotes

“Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.”
“The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.”
“Oddly enough, I think that everybody can relate to revenge, on some level. Everyone has wanted to exact it, at some point, and everybody has tampered with the idea, even if they didn't actually go through with it.”
“i was the never the girl who thought i need to make sure i look like all the other girl. i think you look best when you stand out”
“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word. To-day, wrapped in the complacent armour of approaching middle age, the infinitesimal ***** of day by day brush one but lightly and are soon forgotten, but thenâ€”how a careless word would linger, becoming a fiery stigma, and how a look, a glance over a shoulder, branded themselves as things eternal.”
“Football is more important to me than money right now.”
“Over the years, Steve has come to understand I need the clicker. He says it's my security blanket.”
“... do not listen to vain and empty talk, in which the majority of world-loving people spend their time, and do not take pleasure in it. For the law says: 'You shall not raise false reports' (Ex. 23:1). Solomon says: 'Remove far from me vanity and lies' (Prov. 30:8). The Lord said: 'But I say to you, every idle word that men shall speak they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment' (Mt. 12:36).”

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