"Love Thatâ€™s it: The cashless commerce. The blanket always too short. The loose connexion. To search behind the horizon. To brush fallen leaves with four shoes and in oneâ€™s mind to rub bare feet. To let and rent hearts; or in a room with shower and mirror, in a hired car, bonnet facing the moon, wherever innocence stops and burns its programme, the word in falsetto sounds different and new each time. Today, in front of a box office not yet open, hand in hand crackled the hangdog old man and the dainty old woman. The film promised love."

-- Gunter Grass

#Heart Quotes #Moon Quotes #Men Quotes

“This is a, uh, friendship ring right?â€ â€œYeah, donâ€™t worry. If I propose, youâ€™ll know it. For one thing, Iâ€™ll be hyperventilating.â€ A sly smileâ€”surprisingly sexyâ€”turned up his lips. â€œAnd itâ€™ll be a ruby.â€ â€œRubies? No diamonds? Too expensive for the old writerâ€™s salary, huh?â€ He made a disparaging grunt at that. â€œNo, I just think diamonds are common, thatâ€™s all. If I get married, itâ€™ll be because something uncommon is occurring. Besides, you wear a lot of red, right? I know how important it is for your accessories to match.”
“I had a dream this morning too, and you were in it," he said. "I don't remember what it was about, exactly, but when I woke up I looked at the clock and it was exactly six thirty-two." I felt an eerie tingle all down my back and froze with my spoon halfway to my mouth. "Really?" He smirked and popped the cookie into his mouth. "No”

Source : Kate Brian (2013). “The Complete Private Collection: Private; Invitation Only; Untouchable; Confessions; Inner Circle; Legacy; Ambition; Revelation; Last Christmas; Paradise Lost; Suspicion; Scandal; Vanished; The Book of Spells; Ominous; Vengeance”, p.2951, Simon and Schuster
“There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts.”
“I think that if everyone did at least embrace a more plant-centered diet, it would improve public health.”
“He who wants to learn true humility should reflect upon the Passion of Jesus. (267)”
“Chinese workers are not forced into factories because of our insatiable desire for iPods. They choose to leave their homes in order to earn money, to learn new skills and to see the world.”

Source : "The voices of China's workers". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2012.
“in mad people fear goes on constantly, night and day, wearing one ditch in the mind that all thoughts must travel in.”

Source : Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.68, Feminist Press at CUNY
“I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.”

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