Quotes from Kerstin Gier

It took me a couple of years to realize that ghosts can't hurt you. All they can really do to people is scare them.

I shook my head. "Go on, swear it!" "I swear by my life!" cried Aunt Maddy happily. "I swear," murmured the others, rather embarrassed. Nick began giggling nervously, because Aunt Maddy had begum humming the national anthem to show what a solemn occasion it was.

Meet the time as it seeks us. «Encontremos el tiempo como nos busca». The Tragedy of Cymbeline, William Shakespeare

If we were in a film, the villain would turn out to be the least-expected person. But as we aren't in a film, i'd go for the character who tried to strangle you.

Ex hoc momento pendet aeternitas. (La eternidad pende de este momento) Inscripción en un Rel. De sol, Middle temple (Londres)

Salta, y deja que te crezcan alas en el camino hacia abajo. Ray Bradbury

Du hast dir selber eins übergebraten! Kannst du dich noch daran erinnern, wie gemein du deswegen zu mir warst?« Gideon grinste schwach. »Ja, kann ich. Und es tut mir ehrlich leid. Aber wer rechnet denn auch mit so was? Jetzt komm schon! Bevor der Blödmann wieder aufwacht.

common sense flies out the window as soon as love comes in through the door.

It wasn't a crow from dangling head down from the the car roof and looking in at the window. It was the little gargoyle from Belgravia. When he saw my horrified expression, his catlike face twisted into a triumphant smile, and he spewed a torrent of water over the windshield. - Sapphire Blue

No acute attacks of guilt and self-hatred?" "Nope. I've taken Mr. Wu's advice: never mind how hard the times are, he always says, carry a green branch in your heart and a songbird will settle on it." "Wow—where on earth does Mr. Wu get all these hoary old sayings from?"

good heavens above, the poor child has more freckles than there are stars in the sky! if she doesn't start using a good bleaching lotion at once, she'll never catch a good husband!" -James Augustus Peregrine Pympoole-Bothame

E se tu dormissi? E se nel sonno tu sognassi? E se nel tuo sogno salissi al cielo e lì cogliessi un mirabile fiore? E se al tuo risveglio quel fiore fosse fra le tue mani? (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Der Kollege hat einfach das gewisse - Nichts

Oh, wow!" he groaned. "If you were a TV program, I'd switch channels.

Jedes Mädchen würde ihn toll finden", sagte ich. "Zumindest vom Aussehen her. Aber er bringt mich die ganze Zeit auf die Palme und er kommandiert mich herum und er ist einfach... er ist einfach unwahrscheinlich..." "... toll?" Leslie lächelte mich liebevoll an.

Podemos ver cómo una taza cae de la mesa y se rompe en pedazos, pero nunca podremos ver cómo una taza se recompone y vuelve a saltar a la mesa. Este aumento del desorden o entropía diferencia el pasado del futuro y de este modo otorga al tiempo una dirección. Stephen Hawking

Even the shadows on the walls were silent, while the two of them looked at each other as if they'd just sat on a whoopee cushion," said Xemerius, coming down from the chandelier and flying after us. "Romantic violin music began to play as the girl in the piss-yellow blouse and the boy who badly needed a haircut walked out of the room side by side.

No podrías mantener la boca cerrada unos segundos, por favor? Tengo que armarme de valor para hacerte una declaración de amor. No tengo ninguna práctica con estas cosas.

but then logic had never been my strong point.

Perché il mio desiderio è stato esaudito nel momento stesso in cui ti ho conosciuta.»

Yeah, sure, I did have a bit imagination, but daydreaming is one thing. Imagining you're traveling through time is quite another. People who imagined that kind of psychiatric treatment. And they should, if you asked me. Maybe I was like those weirdos who claim to have been abducted by aliens. Completely out of mumy mind.

Bocker", flüsterte Mia mir zu. "Wie bitte?" flüsterte ich zurück. "Biest in Ocker ist einfach zu lang.Nennen wir sie Bocker.

A veces hay que atacar a la gente con sus propias armas. El truco está en no mostrar ni la más mínima duda mientras se habla y en incluir al menos a un reconocido autor de éxito, preferiblemente a uno del que efectivamente se haya leído algo. Además, cuanto más exóticos y extranjeros sean los nombres, mejor.

But if you start talking to ghosts and so on in front of other people, they think you're a liar or just showing off. That's if you're lucky. If you aren't, which is most of the time, they think you're totally crazy.