Chapter 3 Quotes

“Distance makes the heart grow fonder.”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

“And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“He belonged to a walled city of the fifteenth century, a city of narrow, cobbled streets, and thin spires, where the inhabitants wore pointed shoes and worsted hose. His face was arresting, sensitive, medieval in some strange inexplicable way, and I was reminded of a portrait seen in a gallery I had forgotten where, of a certain Gentleman Unknown. Could one but rob him of his English tweeds, and put him in black, with lace at his throat and wrists, he would stare down at us in our new world from a long distant past—a past where men walked cloaked at night, and stood in the shadow of old doorways, a past of narrow stairways and dim dungeons, a past of whispers in the dark, of shimmering rapier blades, of silent, exquisite courtesy.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

“There's always a black market, there's always something that can be exchanged.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“I knew that Kitty and I felt just the same- only, of course, about different things. I should have remembered this, later.”
― Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet

“I see I’ll have to take drastic measures to ensure intelligent conversation around here.”
– Dread Empress Maledicta II, before having the tongues of the entire Imperial court ripped out”
― ErraticErrata, So You Want to Be a Villain?

“Hello, Samael,” she said, her voice like rustling silk.

Sam was speechless. How did such a creature even know his name? He opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again. What to say? He had never been good at talking to girls –”
― Phillip W. Simpson, Rapture

“Kumpleto nga kayo, saksakan naman ng duwag!
May lakas nga kayo, di niyo naman ginagamit!”
― Russell Molina, Sixty Six: Chapter 3

“I was certain my father saw things as I did, and I wondered how wrong it must have felt to see the best of you emerge in this way, in the place you didn't expect, indeed in the place your whole world depends on it never appearing.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer

“But she needed a husband because Virginia still operated on the code of gentlemen, meaning there were still things beyond her, places she could not go, deals she could not be party to. And so those two needed each other--Maynard an intelligent partner to save his land and estate, Corrine a gentleman to represent her interests.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer

“But what did it mean to find me, a slave, dreaming amid those books?”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer

“Almost any tasking man at Lockless would have traded his life for mine. But there was a weight of being so close to them, the weight that Thena had tried to warn me about, but something more, the crushing weight of seeing how the Quality truly lived, in all their luxury, and how much they really took from us.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer

“This is why we can’t have nice things. You accidentally leave people for dead without checking to make sure they are, in fact, dead.”
― S.D. Howard, The City of Snow & Stars

“No soul wish to be sent early to the endless gloom of our underworld.
Exile might satisfy the anger of the living, but it did not appease the dead.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I wouldn't care how small the world became as long as I had Cassia at the center of mine.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“... In what I do I may appear to be interfering with you, and I hope you will forgive me for doing so.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Warden

“To Hilary it all had an unreal quality. It was as though she was still in a dream, mercifully protected from contact with reality. This was only a delay, only a matter of waiting. She was still on her journey—her journey of escape. She was still getting away from it all, still going towards that spot where her life would start again.”
― Agatha Christie, Destination Unknown

“And so she had booked her journey to this place which had no associations with the past, a place quite new to her which had the qualities she loved so much: sunlight, pure air and the strangeness of new people and things. Here, she had thought, things will be different. But they were not different.”
― Agatha Christie, Destination Unknown