“When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!”
Agatha Christie book The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Giannina Braschi, in United States of Banana, 2011
“When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!”
Agatha Christie book The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it's just another job.”
Terry Pratchett book Moving Pictures
Source: Moving Pictures
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Y si cuanto encuentras es en cuanto buscas, siempre, en vano encuentras, en vano buscas.
Voces (1943)
Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Variant: That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate on life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Context: "All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you." Eddie was skeptical. His fists stayed clenched. "What?" he said. "That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind."
M. John Harrison book Light
The comfortable generosity of this offer puzzled Kearney, so he decided to ignore it. It seemed meaningless anyway.
Source: Light (2002), Chapter 31 “I’ve Been Here” (p. 390)
Sarah Zettel (1966) American writer
Source: Bitter Angels (2009), Chapter 11 (p. 144)
“I know that if you don't look for an alternative, Sophos, you certainly won't find one.”
Megan Whalen Turner book A Conspiracy of Kings
Source: A Conspiracy of Kings