„The only wealth you possess is your labour…France will become again what she should never have ceased to be—an essentially agricultural nation. Like the giant of mythology, she will recover all her strength by contact with the soil.“

„That she [France] has anything to fear from Germany in the future which we can foresee, except what she may herself provoke, is a delusion. When Germany has recovered her strength and pride, as in due time she will, many years must pass before she again casts her eyes Westwards. Germany's future now lies to the East, and it is in that direction her hopes and ambitions, when they revive, will certainly turn.“

—  John Maynard Keynes, buch A Revision of the Treaty

A Revision of the Treaty (London: Macmillan, 1922), p. 186

„You eventually erase her contact info from your phone but not the pictures you took of her in bed while she was naked and asleep, never those.“

—  Junot Díaz, buch This Is How You Lose Her

Quelle: This Is How You Lose Her

„In greek mythology, Antaeus was a giant who was strong as long as he had contact with the earth. When he was lifted from the earth he lost strength. So it is with engineers. They must not become isolated from the real world…“

—  Hyman George Rickover United States admiral 1900 - 1986

„I sought her in the grayness and she wasn’t there, she was dead and she wasn’t there, she wouldn’t be there ever again and I could never find comfort in her again. Ellen, beloved, you are dead and your voice is in my mind and only in my mind.“

—  Fredric Brown, buch The Lights in the Sky Are Stars

Quelle: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1953), Chapter 3, “1999” (p. 233)

„She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.“

—  Margaret Mitchell, Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Quelle: Gone with the Wind

„A woman never thoroughly cares for her lover until he has ceased to care for her; and it is not until you have snapped your fingers in Fortune's face and turned on your heel that she begins to smile upon you.“

—  Jerome K. Jerome, buch Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)

„She can kill with a smile
She can wound with her eyes
She can ruin your faith with her casual lies
And she only reveals what she wants you to see
She hides like a child
But she's always a woman to me.“

—  Billy Joel American singer-songwriter and pianist 1949

She's Always a Woman.
Song lyrics, The Stranger (1977)

„Never having had either positive cruelty or kindness shown to her by her parents, but only an indifference, she was not conscious of what it was that she missed—affection.“

—  Mervyn Peake, buch Titus Groan

Quelle: Titus Groan (1946), Chapter 37 “The Grotto” (p. 211)

„You may have married her, but she is mine. Do you think I shall let you take her? She may be ten times your wife, but, by God, you shall never have her.“

—  Georgette Heyer, buch Devil's Cub

Quelle: Devil's Cub

„She will not be simple and sweet.
She will not be what people tell her she should be.“

—  E. Lockhart, buch The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

Quelle: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

„He's just a contact of hers, which is not the same as a friend. While she was in the hospital she decided that most of her friends were really just contacts.“

—  Margaret Atwood, buch Bodily Harm

Bodily Harm (1981)

„You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect—you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break—her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.“

—  Bob Marley Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945 - 1981

Variante: You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect — you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break — her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.

„Don't soil your pretty little shoes
The gutter's deep and red
Climb up climb up and ride along with me
the tumbrel driver saidBut she never said a word
never turned her headDon't soil your pretty little pants
I only go one way
Climb up climb up and ride along with me
There's no gold coach todayBut she never said a word
never turned her head“

—  Peter Weiss, Marat/Sade

Singers, act 1, scene 10 (pp.19-20)
Marat/Sade (1963)

„In a low whisper she was certain only her friend could
hear, she said, "I specifically remember we both promised never to drink from any man's goblet of wine. From the looks of you, Frances Catherine, I'm thinking you broke your word.“

—  Julie Garwood American writer 1946

Quelle: The Secret

„She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn’t have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be.“

—  Charles Bukowski, buch Factotum

Variante: She was desperate and she was choosey
at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what
she imagined herself to be.
Quelle: Factotum

„How could she know what she wanted to do with her life? All these years she thought she'd be a healer like Mama, and now she knew it was never going to happen.“

—  Patricia Reilly Giff American children's writer 1935

Quelle: Water Street (2006), Chapters 11-20, p. 64

„She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.“

—  Marguerite Duras, buch The Ravishing of Lol Stein

Quelle: The Ravishing of Lol Stein

„She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity.“

—  Gabriel García Márquez, buch Die Liebe in den Zeiten der Cholera

Quelle: Love in the Time of Cholera

„Aniela knows perfectly that I live for her only, exist through her; that all my thoughts belong to her, my actions have only her in view; that she is to me an issue of life and death; and in spite of all that she calmly decides to go away. Whether I should perish or beat my head against the wall, she never so much as considered. She will be more at ease when she ceases to see me writhing like a beetle stuck on a pin; she will be no longer afraid of my kissing her feet furtively, or startling that virtuous conscience. How can she hesitate when such excellent peace can be got, at so small a price as cutting somebody's throat! Thoughts like these spun across my brain by thousands.“

—  Henryk Sienkiewicz, buch Without Dogma

11 July
Without Dogma (1891)