“In spite of his Cold War credentials, Kennedy still believed in the power of words.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“In spite of his Cold War credentials, Kennedy still believed in the power of words.”
@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“In nature, he thinks, there is no such thing as ugliness. It's like he tried to tell Margaret in the car, beauty belongs to god, and ugliness to human beings.”
- Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
#bookquotes
#booksky
#books
#book
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#bookworm
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#modernnovel
#sallyrooney
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“The Bible attitude is not that God sends sickness or that sickness is of the devil, but that sickness is a fact usable by both God and the devil.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“If a faerie, a vampire, and a demon walk into a bar, you wait for the punch line. At Private Eye, when a faerie, a vampire, and a demon walk through the door, it’s just another day at the office.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“Your roots aren't to be found in your childhood so much as in your child. It's he who provides your link to the world, and home is wherever he is.”
@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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#classicliterature
#russianliterature
@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“The gates of hell are open night and day;
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this the task and mighty labor lies.”
- The Aeneid by Virgil
#bookquotes
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#classical
#ancientrome
#virgil
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“The body of the last Flealouse contained the flesh of everything that had ever lived. It was content.”
@anaiskireiholm.bsky.social"Underneath, it felt natural."
#bookquotes #femininepower
@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
- The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
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#philosophy
@daxcornwell.bsky.social"Life needs more sprinkles."
- Canyon, The Ambergris Trail 🐋💙📖
#quotes #bookquotes #booksky #theambergristrail #lgbtq+books #book #self-published #life #sprinkles #positivity
@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.”
- Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
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#modernclassics
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“August in Mississippi is different from July. As to heat, it is not a question of degree but of kind. July heat is furious, but in August the heat has killed even itself and lies dead over us.”
@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“If I were to share Jaques' existence I would find it hard to hold my own against him, for already I found his nihilism contagious.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“I firmly believe that life will continually try to teach you the same lesson, with increasing pain, until you heed the call.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart.”
