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“First find out what you are capable of, then decide who you are.”

“When we are alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.”

“Jest to nie bardziej skomplikowane niż wiedza, że ruszyło się od drzwi domu, przeszło dziesięć metrów na północ i dwa metry na zachód, a potem wspięło na wysokość półtora metra po drabinie opartej o stary dąb. Trzeba przy tym pilnować równowagi, bo drabina zdaje się nieco chybotliwa. Oczywiście śledzenie pozycji statku w kosmosie jest o tyle bardziej złożone, że w równaniach ruchu należy uwzględnić działanie grawitacji. Zasadniczo jednak mechanizm jest ten sam.”

“Jeden z mężczyzn wyciągnął pistolet i przystawił do głowy temu, którego Zofia nazywała Polakiem. - O Boże, nie - szepnęła bezdźwięcznie. Rozległ się strzał i Polak upadł w śnieg.Z drzew zerwało się stado wron. Po chwili wokół głowy zabitego widać było powiększającą się plamę krwi. mężczyźni chwycili bezwładne ciało i pociągnęli je w krzaki po przeciwległej stronie polany. Zofia nie mogła się ruszyć.Nawet nie wiedziała kiedy usadła na śniegu, chyba podczas wystrzału nogi odmówiły jej posłuszeństwa.”

“Death is always sudden... You are ever so much more....”

“Udzielanie rad a wcielanie ich w życie to dwie zupełnie inne sprawy, uznała Dee.”

“Bad Things are going to happen, have happened and will continue to happen.”

“„You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. Please, don’t take my sunshine away” ”

“(...) Some people do colour the room they are standing in with rather a special aura (...)”

“They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.”

“They are people who learn more from themselves than they can ever learn from others.”

“Obaj męż­czyź­ni do­tar­li do miej­sca okre­śla­nego jako Skrzy­żo­wa­nie Śmier­ci, w któ­rym prze­ci­nają się dwie drogi życia. Jedno życie
zo­sta­je prze­rwane, a dru­gie
nie­od­wra­cal­nie zmie­nia się na
za­wsze. Nazy­wamy to zrzą­dze­niem losu.”

“Społeczeństwo jest w stanie wierzyć, że może identyfikować złych, szkodliwych ludzi, ale to niemożliwe. My seryjni mordercy jesteśmy waszymi synami, mężami [...] jesteśmy wszędzie. Jutro zginą kolejne dzieci. A z resztą - czy śmierć jednej osoby ma jakieś znaczenie?”

“Pozostawiam Czytelnikom decyzję czy uznać Billa Heirensa za winnego czy niewinnego; moim zdaniem nie ma absolutnie żadnych dowodów łączących go z którymkolwiek z trzech opisanych zabójstw. Mógł być złodziejem... ale mordercą? Z pewnością nie.”

“Jeśli ktoś łamie prawo, musi ponieść karę. ”

“LEAN OVER THE BOWL
AND THEN TAKE A DIVE.
ALL OF YOU ARE DEAD.
I AM ALIVE.”

“Editors are inundated with submissions, and every editor comes into work each day to find a new stack of manuscripts and proposals. They are all looking out for books in their area of interest or expertise, and they are trying to avoid books that are too similar to something else the house has recently bought or published, as well as books by fanatics, lunatics, and terrible writers. Barry, Sam (2010-05-18). Write That Book Already!: The Tough Love You Need To Get Published Now (p. 95). F+W Media, Inc Kindle Edition.”

““Aha! So I’m not crazy.” “You are most definitely crazy,” Derek said. “But in a deranged, endearing way.””

“It sometimes happens that our lives, in all their monotonousness, are so extraordinary that no work of fiction can surpass them.”

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”

“-Nigdy Cię nie nienawidziłam - zaprotestowała Alyss, na co Evanlyn tylko uniosła jedną bre, przybierając tak dobrze znany wszystkim przyjaciołom Halta wyraz twarzy.
-Doprawdy? - spytała tylko.
{...}
-No, może troszeczkę.”

“"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans" /James Herriot/”

““Claude Shannon, the father of information theory, once declared, “I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines.””

“ - Zastanawiam się , czy Dee da się namówić, żeby mi coś takiego zrobić - odpowiedział Archer beztrosko, ignorując Daemona. - No wiesz, jak już nie będzie w przeciwnej drużynie.
- Nie zrobi ci żadnego kurczaka - odparł Daemon.
- Och, na pewno mi zrobi kurczaka. - Archer zaśmiał się głęboko. - Zrobi mi tyle kurczaka, ile będę chciał.
Daemon mruknął niezadowolony, a ja nie mogłam uwierzyć. że się kłócą o tak hipotetyczną sytuację, jak to, czy Dee usmaży kurczaka, czy też nie. Ale nie powinnam być zaskoczona. Godzinę temu kłócili się o ty, czy Shane byłby lepszym ojcem niż Rick z serialu The Walking Dead. Jakimś cudem Daemon później stwierdził, że Gubernator, pomijając socjopatyczne zapędy, byłby najlepszym ojcem. Fakt, że Archer nigdy nie jadł w Olive Garden, ale oglądał The Walking Dead, był po prostu dziwny.”

“The best men are the male heroes created in fiction - by women (...) The Scarlet Pimpernel, Heathcliff, Rhett Butler, Mr Darcy - all created by women, and that is because they couldn't find a man they really liked, which made them sit down and create one”

“(...) 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.”

“'In Australia one has to consider whose and what aspects of cultures are reproduced. While recognising goals and functions for Indigenous Literature depicted by Indigenous authors, it is important to remember their comments on the mainstream literary critique and notice the above mentioned Indigenous Literature’s unsteady position within Literary History and Institutions. Not represented up to its miscellaneous aptitudes, Aboriginal literature (within literary discourses and social forms of organisation) engages with various systems of signs in the production of texts. These very texts replicate the meanings of a culture, which must be seen as ever changing. Assuming exclusiveness, and inclusiveness of Indigenous Literature, this article’s intention has been to dismantle the perspective of theoretical nativism in the case of Australian Indigenous Literature.' (ANTI-NATIVISM IN AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS LITERATURE. Kultura Globalizacja Historia, nr7) 'To jest moja droga koniecznosci/ za krotkie mam rece/ by siegnac snow/ zamieszkalych na drugim koncu' (Punkt widzenia)”

“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.)”