"I don't think of myself as fitting into a category. But I had to be careful in all of my books not to repeat things, because I have these ideas, and though the subjects were disparate, the same idea would come up through different portals."

“I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die”

“The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.”

Source : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”

“I'd rather kill myself than dress like Victoria Beckham in towering heels day after day.”

“Art is doing. Art deals directly with life.”

“They gave each other a smile with a future in it.”

“They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.”

Source : John Connolly (2015). “The Reapers: A Charlie Parker Thriller”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

“Our political process appears to be a toxic dance of mutually assured destruction that takes all the citizens down with you, and that can't be right. So I've prepared a little experiment.”

“Whether she won or lost, she would continue to wrestle with life. It would not be with her own life alone but with all of life. Something had finally been released within her. And there it was, the sea.”

Source : Clarice Lispector (1986). “An Apprenticeship, Or, The Book of Delights”, Austin : University of Texas Press