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Quotes About Complexity

Maybe I'm like the vehicle," Eve decided. "Keep it ordinary on the outside, so nobody notices all the hardware inside.
~ J.D. Robb
Why did people always get tangled up with other people? Why put ourselves through this shit?
~ J.D. Robb
Edison, Oedipus, platypus. Whatever.
~ J.D. Robb
life used to be simple." "Mmm." "It did. Because it didn't have all these people in it." "If
~ J.D. Robb
Never in my life have I known anyone who has such a basic dislike of people, yet has such unstinting and bottomless compassion for them.
~ J.D. Robb
The heart and the brain don't always mesh, do they? I know your heart, darling Eve, but your brain still has some mysterious corners.
~ J.D. Robb
Whenever she cried, he thought, it was a storm, a passionate tumult. Rarely were there a few easy, quiet tears for Eve. Rarely was anything easy for Eve.
~ J.D. Robb
Lo que él quiere saber es qué tienen que ver las estrellas con los números, qué tienen que ver los números con la música y cómo puede una persona inteligente como Juan Sebastián Arroyo hablar de estrellas, números y música en una misma frase.
~ J.M. Coetzee
problema es que son demasiados —dice Bev Shaw—. Es imposible que lo entiendan, y tampoco tenemos manera de decírselo. Son demasiados, según nuestro criterio, que no es el suyo. Si pudieran, se multiplicarían sin cesar hasta llenar la tierra.
~ J.M. Coetzee
The world is more various than we ever give it credit for.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Because it is not in the nature of love affairs for the lovers to see each other whole and steady.
~ J.M. Coetzee
How he wishes it could be true! He is tired of shadows, of complications, of complicated people.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Para ellos, en cambio, soy especial. No tengo conciencia, o bien tengo demasiada, no consiguen decidirse.
~ J.M. Coetzee
An intellectual apparatus marked by a conscious knowledge of its insufficiency is an evolutionary aberration.
~ J.M. Coetzee
I wish I wanted you, Rehv. He laughed dryly. Funny. I know just what you mean.
~ J.R Ward
You know, Qhuinn's an interesting character. Saxton reached out with an elegant hand and picked up his port. He's one of my favorite cousins, actually. His nonconformity is admirable and he's survived things that would crush a lesser male. Don't know that being in love with him would be easy, however. Blay didn't go near that one. So do you come here often? Saxton laughed, his pale eyes glinting, Not for discussion, huh.
~ J.R. Ward
Wellsie frowned. I'd like you to stay away from him, okay? He's...not right in a lot of ways. Do you know what I mean? Actually, John wasn't so sure about that. Yeah, the guy was enough to make you think fondly of the boogeyman sometimes, but clearly he wasn't all bad.
~ J.R. Ward
How ironic. Now that he wasn't with Blay, he was being faithful to the fucker.
~ J.R. Ward
There was both love and despair in his voice. He was truly handicapped when it came to emotions, and falling in love hadn't changed that...
~ J.R. Ward
Saxton was indeed clear on things: Blay was still in love with Qhuinn— and probably always would be. "Why?" he said to his lover. "Because I want you for however long I have you.
~ J.R. Ward
I always root for the monster.
~ J.R. Ward
He thinks I love him. As in… in love with him. Yeah. Go fig. Me in love with Qhuinn… a guy who, when he's not moody, is a slut and smart-ass. Except you want to know what the most fucked-up thing is, though? He's right.
~ J.R. Ward
We don't have to talk about Zsadist. That's okay. He's the most interesting part of me.
~ J.R. Ward
Besides, the mhis that surrounded the compound could scramble anything from GPS to Santa Claus.
~ J.R. Ward