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“(...) Dwie pary najlepszych koni przez pół dnia wyciągały Musiałka z tego szamba, które wokół siebie narobił z gliny, ropy i oleju wielozakresowego PT 47.”

“Mam 49 lat, jestem rodowitą szczecinianką. Z wykształcenia jestem inżynierem oraz pedagogiem. Zawodowo i społecznie udzielałam się w kilku obszarach. Moje obserwacje zamieściłam w książce pt.: Larwy", która jest debiutem literackim.”

“Ulotka WiN-owska z 1945 roku pt. "Dość krętactw sowieckich" udaje raport, ale jest czystą propagandą. Groźną, bo dotyczącą wątku "mordów transfuzyjnych". Wobec tych pogłosek działacze WiN, podobnie jak biskupi Kościoła katolickiego, nie byli w stanie uzgodnić stanowiska, co nie przeszkodziło im jednak w rozpowszechnianiu legendy. ”

“People will buy anything at jumble sales,' I said. 'At the Evacuated Children Charity Fair a woman bought a tree branch that had fallen on the table. ”

“kiedy zapadnie zmierzch
będę zmywać podłogę
obierać warzywa
i kroić jabłka
będę zakręcać słoiki z konfiturami
mieszać łyżką w poczerniałych rondlach
i liczyć kościstym palcem
połcie słoniny w mrocznej spiżarni kiedy zapadnie zmierzch
szeleszcząc spłyną ze ścian
pęki ziół - róż
ciągnąc za sobą błękitny szlak
pomarszczonej wstążki do włosów
a odwiązany od pasa
biało krochmalony fartuch
wydmie się i chrzęszcząc potoczy się w wiatr”

“Wpełzłaś do łóżka samego diabła, kochanie. Teraz już nie ma odwrotu.”

“Z satysfakcją odwróciłem się do niego plecami i poszedłem w swoją stronę. Nie pozwolę wodzić się za nos. Niech wie, że ja też jestem zdolny do wszystkiego.”

“Jeśli potrafisz stanąć w pełni w swoim braku przynależności i zaprzyjaźnić się z lękami samotności oraz wykluczenia, nie pozwolisz, żeby unikanie ich dłużej tobą rządziło. Innymi słowy: znajdziesz się na drodze do swojego domu.”

“I chociaż każdy z nas ma swoją własną opowieść o czekaniu na schodach, jej sednem zawsze jest uczucie, jakie towarzyszy przebywaniu poza przynależnością. Nieznośne przekonanie, że nikt cię nie potrzebuje. Życie nie uważa, że jesteś niezbędny. Kiedy nikt nie przychodzi za tobą z zaproszeniem, potwierdza to najgorsze twoje obawy i sprawia, że jeszcze bardziej zapuszczasz się na terytorium wygnania, aż czujesz zimny powiew śmierci.”

“Życie nie tylko nam się przydarza, my również przydarzamy się życiu.
s. 303”

“Jas et loyda rauhaa itses tamme on turhaa etsia sita muualta. Jeśli nie możesz znaleźć spokoju w samym sobie , nie ma sensu szukać go gdziekolwiek indziej”

“So, let us be alert - alert in a twofold sense:
Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of.
And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.”

“We mnie funkcjonariusze AT, z którymi współpracowałam zresztą przez wiele lat, budzili, budzą i pewnie będą budzili podziw, szacunek i uznanie. Wykonują najniebezpieczniejszą pracę, poświęcając się dla ludzi, których bardzo często nie znają. Idą na tak zwany pierwszy ogień tam, gdzie wymagane są umiejętności najwyższej klasy. ”

“Vyshinsky: Why did you write the poem? Rostov: It demanded to be written. I simply happened to be sitting at the particular desk on the particular morning when it chose to make its demands. ”

“"Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words." A glib saying. When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”

“In the last few months, perhaps because he has had no one to speak to -- or at least no interlocutor who can respond with actual out-loud speech -- he has learned how to let different parts of his mind and heart speak within him as if they were different souls with their own arguments.”

“In his twenties, John Bridgens most identified with Hamlet. The strangely aging Prince of Denmark—Bridgens was quite sure that the boy Hamlet had magically aged over a few theatrical weeks to a man who was, at the very least, in his thirties by Act V—had been suspended between thought and deed, between motive and action, frozen by a consciousness so astute and unrelenting that it made him think about everything, even thought itself.”

“In his twenties, John Bridgens most identified with Hamlet. The strangely aging Prince of Denmark—Bridgens was quite sure that the boy Hamlet had magically aged over a few theatrical weeks to a man who was, at the very least, in his thirties by Act V—had been suspended between thought and deed, between motive and action, frozen by a consciousness so astute and unrelenting that it made him think about everything, even thought itself.”

“At the subatomic level, reality is the collection of all possible quantum objects (Objects in an axiomatic sense), for example, an electron exists genuinely before measurement. Objects are devoid of experimental content, belonging to the 'hidden' (implicit) reality, about which one can only say that it exists (ontic truth – Def. 7.2.) and serves as a substrate (ex nihilo nihil fit) for S-objects (e.g., an electron after measurement), appearing as the effect of measurement performed by an observer (ontic truth). S-construct is essentially a model of S-object (e.g., characteristics of an electron after measurement), providing a more or less experimentally verified characterization of the electron as such (correspondence truth – Def. 7.2.). In the case of RAES, the electron is an abstract-essential entity that exists independently of the knowing subject and physical reality but can be reconstructed by the knowing subject (if it exists at all) in an infinite series of approximations (asymptotic truth – Def. 7.2.)”

“Gdy Adam go pocałował, Ronan poczuł każdy kilometr na godzinę, jakim kiedykolwiek przekroczył dopuszczalną prędkość. Każdą nocną jazdę z odsuniętą szybą, ciarkami na skórze i zębami szczękającymi z zimna. Żebra Adama znalazły się pod dłońmi Ronana, usta Adama na jego ustach, i znowu, znowu, znowu. Ronan poczuł zarost pod wargami i musiał przerwać, by odzyskać oddech, by na nowo skłonić serce do działania. Obydwaj byli niczym wygłodniałe zwierzęta, lecz Adam czuł głód od dłuższego czasu.
We wnętrzu udawali, że śnią, lecz nie śnili. Ułożyli się na kanapie w salonie i Adam przyglądał się tatuażowi przykrywającemu plecy Ronana, wszystkim ostrym krawędziom, które wspaniale zakleszczały się ze sobą i z lękiem wpływały w siebie.
-Unguibus et rostro - powiedział Adam.
Ronan wsunął palce Adama do swych ust.
Już nigdy nie miał spać.”

“The problem with the so-called bloody surveillance state is that it’s hard work trying to track someone’s movements using CCTV – especially if they’re on foot. Part of the problem is that the cameras all belong to different people for different reasons. Westminster Council has a network for traffic violations, the Oxford Street Trading Association has a huge network aimed at shop-lifters and pickpockets, individual shops have their own systems, as do pubs, clubs and buses. When you walk around London it is important to remember that Big Brother may be watching you, or he could be having a piss, or reading the paper or helping redirect traffic around a car accident or maybe he’s just forgotten to turn the bloody thing on.”

“If you want your book to lead the pack, you must write in a genre and deliver a manuscript that suits you as an author, in terms of both your talent and skills and your background and education (formal and informal—for some books, for instance, time spent in prison can come in handy), and write on a subject for which there is an audience, in a manner that communicates your story and message. All this is to give yourself the best possible shot at finding the readers who will buy your book. Barry, Sam (2010-05-18). Write That Book Already!: The Tough Love You Need To Get Published Now (p. 107). F+W Media, Inc Kindle Edition.”

“(...) I share almost ninety-nine per cent of my genes with a chimpanzee - and our longevity is virtually the same - but I don't think you have an inkling of how much more I comprehend, and yet I know I must tear myself away from it. For example, I have a good grasp of just how infinitely great outer space is and how it's divided into galaxies and clusters of galaxies, spirals and lone stars, and that there are healthy stars and febrile red giants, white dwarfs and neutron stars, planets ans asteroids. I know everything about the sun and moon, about the evolution of life on earth, about the Pharaohs and the Chinese dynasties, the countries of the world and their peoples as presently constituted, not to mention all the studying I've done on plants and animals, canals and lakes, rivers and mountain passes. Without even a pause for thought I can tell you the names of several hundred cities, I can tell you the names of nearly all the countries in the world, and I know the approximate populations of every one. I have a knowledge of the historical background of the different cultures, their religion and mythology, and to a certain extent also the history of their languages, in particular etymological relationships, especially within the Indo-European family of languages, but I can certainly reel off a goodly number of expressions from the Semitic language too, and the same from Chinese and Japanese, not to mention all the topographical and personal names I know. In addition, I'm acquainted with several hundred individuals personally, and just from my own small country I could, at the drop of a hat, supply you with several thousand names of loving fellow countrymen whom I know something about - fairly extensive biographical knowledge in some cases. And I needn't confine myself to Norwegians, we're living more and more in a global village, and soon the village square will cover the entire galaxy. On another level, there are all the people I'm genuinely fond of, although it isn't just people one gets attached to, but places as well: just think of the all the places I know like the back of my hand, and where I can tell if someone's gone chopped down a bush or moved a stone. Then there are books, especially all those that have taught me so much about the biosphere and outer space, but also literary works, and through them all the imaginary people whose lives I've come to know and who, at times, have meant a great deal to me. And then I couldn't live without music, and I'm very eclectic, everything from folk music and Renaissance music to Schonberg and Penderecki, but I have to admit, and this has a bearing on the very perspective we're trying to gain, I have to admit to having a particular penchant for romantic music, and this, don't forget, can also be found amongst the works of Bach and Gluck, not to mention Albinoni. But romantic music has existed in every age, and even Plato warned against it because he believed that melancholy could actually weaken the state, and it's patently clear when you get to Puccini and Mahler that music has become a direct expression of what I'm trying to get you to comprehend, that life is too short and that the way human beings are fashioned means they must take leave of far too much. If you've heard Mahler's Abschied from Das Lied von the Erde you'll know what I mean. Hopefully you'll have understood that it's the farewell itself I'm referring to, the actual leave- taking, and that this takes place in the self-same organ where everything I'm saying goodbye to is stored.”