Three times Quote by Ismail Kadaré

“It was a bad day when three or four men were not standing around the forge, listening to Samuel's hammer and his talk. They…

— John Steinbeck

“Curious the small and lesser fates that join to lead a man to this. The thousand brawls and stoven jaws, the clubbings and the…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Gamache was the best of them, the smartest and bravest and strongest because he was willing to go into his own head alone, and…

— Louise Penny

“This is the whole of the story and we might have left it at that had there not been profit and pleasure in the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Gray’s teeth ground like millstones. At this rate, they wouldn’t need a hanging. The effort required to hold his tongue in the face of…

— Tessa Dare

“They massacred the servants before killing my parents. I saw it all through a knothole in the wood. As I said, my eyes were…

— J.R. Ward

“I had lost sight of G. Z. and didn’t want to think about him anymore. He wasn’t the only one who had torn out…

— Ismail Kadare

“The other men also disarmed, as was suitable in the house of God, leaving an impressively bristling pile of lethality in the back pew.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“Or, obversely, he might kill a man himself. It would be a question of throwing up his rifle, pressing the trigger, and a particular…

— Norman Mailer

“I lived in an enclave in which our oldest had seen twenty-five years. His face was withered, and his fingers shook when he attempted…

— Ann Aguirre

“One strange feeling, which I remember clearly, was a powerful link with the slain, particularly those that had fallen within the past hour or…

— William Manchester

“The idea that the spirits of those once tortured in the house might still be there was the avenue his imagination began to explore.…

— Matthew Williams