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Quotes About Refectory

You have minds," Bastian murmurs one evening in the refectory, each boy hunching almost imperceptibly farther over his food as the commandant's finger grazes the back of his uniform. "But minds are not to be trusted. Minds are always drifting toward ambiguity, toward questions, when what you really need is certainty. Purpose. Clarity. Do not trust your minds.
~ Anthony Doerr
He and Werner eat their first meal in their starchy new uniforms at a long wooden table in the refectory. Some boys talk in whispers, some sit alone, some gulp food as if they have not eaten in days. Through three arched windows, dawn sends a sheaf of hallowed golden rays. Frederick flutters his fingers and asks, "Do you like birds?" "Sure." "Do you know about hooded crows?
~ Anthony Doerr
He gazes through sunlight's buttresses, back down the refectory at the others, wallowing in their plenitude of bananas, thick palatals of their hunger lost somewhere in the stretch of morning between them and himself. A hundred miles of it, so suddenly. Solitude, even among the meshes of this war, can when it wishes so take him by the blind gut and touch, as now, possessively. Pirate's again some other side of a window, watching strangers eat breakfast.
~ Thomas Pynchon
También quería crear un panteón para él y su familia; para ello eligió un pequeño pero elegante convento, con su correspondiente iglesia, situado en el centro de Milán (Santa Maria delle Grazie), e hizo que un amigo de Leonardo, Donato Bramante, lo reconstruyera. Para la pared norte del nuevo comedor de los frailes, o refectorio, encargó a Leonardo que pintara una última cena, una de las escenas más populares del arte religioso.
~ Walter Isaacson
Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity, shyness, shame, constraint, but why fear? That was only justifiable when confronted by a real threat: ferocious animals, armed attackers, earthquakes, but not a group of people gathered together in a refectory. But human beings are like that,' she thought. 'We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.
~ Paulo Coelho
Now, if anyone in the Refectory bothers you, you can chop off their head, Aaron thought cheerfully.
~ Holly Black