“She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed”
Clarice Lispector book The Hour of the Star
Source: The Hour of the Star
Source: The Hour of the Star
“She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed”
Clarice Lispector book The Hour of the Star
Source: The Hour of the Star
Adam Roberts book Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer
Part 2, Chapter 4, “The Mystery of the Champagne Supernovae” (p. 128).
Jack Glass (2012)
“It wasn't that she didn't believe in love; but she no longer believed in it for herself.”
Daphne Kalotay American writer
Source: Russian Winter
Charles Stross book Singularity Sky
Source: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 7, “A Semiotic War” (p. 159)
“She did not really want to know; she believed she understood already.”
Philip K. Dick book Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Source: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1974), Chapter 5 (p. 53)
“She worked for the villain and believed in the villain, but she ain’t the villain.”
Ken Kesey (1935–2001) novelist
The Paris Review interview (1994)
Context: I was performing The Sea Lion in the Newport Performing Arts Center. Afterwards a white-haired old woman approached me and said, Hey, you remember me? I looked her over, and I knew I remembered her, but had no idea who she was. She said, Lois. It still didn’t click. She said, Lois Learned, Big Nurse, and I thought, Oh my God. She was a volunteer at Newport, long since retired from the nursing business. This was the nurse on the ward I worked on at the Menlo Park hospital. I didn’t know what to think and she didn’t either, but I was glad she came up to me. I felt there was a lesson in it, the same one I had tried to teach Hollywood. She’s not the villain. She might be the minion of the villain, but she’s really just a big old tough ex-army nurse who is trying to do the best she can according to the rules that she has been given. She worked for the villain and believed in the villain, but she ain’t the villain.