Dia Serene > Dia's Quotes

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“It’s Berlin which is the true ghost, drawing you in with a flurry of wild promises, and then abruptly losing interest.”
― Musa Okwonga, In the End, It Was All About Love

“You wish your skin were a visa, since there are several places it cannot travel. It cannot go to certain European towns.”
― Musa Okwonga, In the End, It Was All About Love

“Your desire for love is the closest that you come to religion.”
― Musa Okwonga, In the End, It Was All About Love

“There is a specific time and date you have been fearing for much of your adult life. When that moment passes, you will be precisely one second older than your father was when he died, and you will have precisely no idea what to do next.”
― Musa Okwonga, In the End, It Was All About Love

“In many ways, despite its flaws, Berlin works—and maybe that is why its relatives are so ashamed of it. A place this unruly wasn’t meant to be a success. Berlin is the queer kid who ends up as a happy adult.”
― Musa Okwonga, In the End, It Was All About Love

“Your best friend will write to you on social media: I think that you have a love affair with this city. You smile, and you don’t deny it.”
― Musa Okwonga, In the End, It Was All About Love

“He said that Berlin had different weather for those of African heritage, That’s why its wind brought him wounds, Why its rain raised bruises on his skin.”
― Musa Okwonga, In the End, It Was All About Love

“Even though you want to disappear, vanish beyond the night sky, you still desperately wish to be missed.”
― Musa Okwonga, In the End, It Was All About Love

“If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Labyrinth

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to read new books," and I hollered "Comrade!" to whoever owned it before me.”
― Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road

“If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.”
― Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road

“Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?”
― Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road

“It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on.”
― Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road

“Apparently, it won’t do just to tell the reader what a particular character is like. The author needs to show their habits or their words and let the reader form an image on their own.”
― Keigo Higashino, Malice

“When the police asked those bullies why they’d abused my student so severely, all they were able to come up with was that they ‘just didn’t like him.’ It was just hate. Pure, simple malice.”
― Keigo Higashino, Malice