Mmkay, this is a really powerful-but really long- quote and I really hope you take just a few minutos out of whatever you're doing and read it.
"I was telling you about evil, now that I know what it is. It's what makes a man get drunk and press a red hot poker on his child's back. It's what makes men have to queue for hours at the dock gates for a chance of a job when there are only a dozen jobs for a hundred men, so they fight each other in order to get them, and the foreman laugh and egg them on. It's what takes an old couple who've got nothing left but each other and splits them up to go in the workhouse so they each die alone. It's ... what takes rent out of tenements and slums and refuses the responsibility of mending the drains, so that children have to wade knee-deep through filth to get into their houses....Don't interrupt. Don't open your mouth. Listen to me and learn.
Evil....it's what makes a family starve--the family I heard about the other day, five of them, father and mother and three children all dead, with nothing in their little room, nothing, because they'd pawned every spoon and every blanket and every chair, and there was no work, and they starved to death. And I've never gone without a meal in my whole life. My city. The same city you live in--this happens. That's evil. And you know what's at the coração of it all? Eh? The gnawing poison cancer destroying and eating and laying waste at the coração of it all? It's not only you, you poor pitiful man; it's me, too. Me and ten thousand others. Because we have shares in the companies that own those buildings and doesn't repair the drains, and we make money out of the docks that prosper por denying men work, and because we've never looked. All this time, all the money we've made por buying and selling and buying again--we never knew what it meant. Didn't know what a pound meant. Didn't know what a shilling meant.
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No, I never intended this. You didn't deserve it. But I did it. Just as I made that family starve and put those men out of work and I drove that man mad with misery and despair so that he tortured his child with a red-hot poker. I did it, without knowing. So I'm guilty, me and all the other share-holders and speculators and capitalists. You know where evil is? It's not just in you, it's in....pretending not to know things once you've seen them. Seeing something bad and shutting your eyes, turning away. All right, I didn't know. But there's no excuse now that I do." Sally Lockhart (Philup Pullman) pg. 349-351, The Tiger in the Well.
I hope you took the time to read this. Because eve though some of it might not make sense out of context (and 19th century England) it's all true.
Do you have any powerful quotes? Feel free to post them in the comments!
"I was telling you about evil, now that I know what it is. It's what makes a man get drunk and press a red hot poker on his child's back. It's what makes men have to queue for hours at the dock gates for a chance of a job when there are only a dozen jobs for a hundred men, so they fight each other in order to get them, and the foreman laugh and egg them on. It's what takes an old couple who've got nothing left but each other and splits them up to go in the workhouse so they each die alone. It's ... what takes rent out of tenements and slums and refuses the responsibility of mending the drains, so that children have to wade knee-deep through filth to get into their houses....Don't interrupt. Don't open your mouth. Listen to me and learn.
Evil....it's what makes a family starve--the family I heard about the other day, five of them, father and mother and three children all dead, with nothing in their little room, nothing, because they'd pawned every spoon and every blanket and every chair, and there was no work, and they starved to death. And I've never gone without a meal in my whole life. My city. The same city you live in--this happens. That's evil. And you know what's at the coração of it all? Eh? The gnawing poison cancer destroying and eating and laying waste at the coração of it all? It's not only you, you poor pitiful man; it's me, too. Me and ten thousand others. Because we have shares in the companies that own those buildings and doesn't repair the drains, and we make money out of the docks that prosper por denying men work, and because we've never looked. All this time, all the money we've made por buying and selling and buying again--we never knew what it meant. Didn't know what a pound meant. Didn't know what a shilling meant.
...
No, I never intended this. You didn't deserve it. But I did it. Just as I made that family starve and put those men out of work and I drove that man mad with misery and despair so that he tortured his child with a red-hot poker. I did it, without knowing. So I'm guilty, me and all the other share-holders and speculators and capitalists. You know where evil is? It's not just in you, it's in....pretending not to know things once you've seen them. Seeing something bad and shutting your eyes, turning away. All right, I didn't know. But there's no excuse now that I do." Sally Lockhart (Philup Pullman) pg. 349-351, The Tiger in the Well.
I hope you took the time to read this. Because eve though some of it might not make sense out of context (and 19th century England) it's all true.
Do you have any powerful quotes? Feel free to post them in the comments!
The book cover for Pride and Popularity.
12 ano old Percy Jackson is just another normal kid...or so he thought. When he realizes he is the son of the Greek god Poseidon, the god of water, the battle really begins for his life, his friends, and the gods....
This is an AWESOME series. If you are a read-aholic (like me).....no further questions, this is the series for you. It's funny, thrilling, and so AMAZINGLY AWESOME I want to scream.
If you don't already know, they also just made the first book of this series (Percy Jackson & the Olypians: The Lightning Thief) into a movie. So check that out as well.
This is an AWESOME series. If you are a read-aholic (like me).....no further questions, this is the series for you. It's funny, thrilling, and so AMAZINGLY AWESOME I want to scream.
If you don't already know, they also just made the first book of this series (Percy Jackson & the Olypians: The Lightning Thief) into a movie. So check that out as well.
I am an upcoming mangá lover and these r the three books out of the 5 series i read that were the most interesting:::
1) Pet comprar Of Horrors ~ A mysterious pet comprar owner named Count D owns a comprar in Chinatown that sells "dreams" but if u don't fallow the rules, it might kill u...or worse.
2) The Dreaming ~ Two twin sisters go to a privite school with a past of girls going missing in the bushes around the school. So they decide to solve it.
3) Princess Ai ~ A princess ends up in Tokyo and becomes a star, and meets the amor of her life. But will that stop her enemies from coming back to kill her?
These r three great series of Manga, I hope u read and enjoy.
1) Pet comprar Of Horrors ~ A mysterious pet comprar owner named Count D owns a comprar in Chinatown that sells "dreams" but if u don't fallow the rules, it might kill u...or worse.
2) The Dreaming ~ Two twin sisters go to a privite school with a past of girls going missing in the bushes around the school. So they decide to solve it.
3) Princess Ai ~ A princess ends up in Tokyo and becomes a star, and meets the amor of her life. But will that stop her enemies from coming back to kill her?
These r three great series of Manga, I hope u read and enjoy.
Tantalize (Cynthia Leitich Smith) was an awsome book. I really enjoyed it. It had me guessing what was going to happen until the very end!
Here is a piece about the book:
Quincie Morris has never felt mais alone. Her hybrid werewolf first amor threatens to embark on a rite of passage that will separate them forever. And just as she and her uncle are about to unveil Austin's red-hot vampire-themed restaurant, a brutal murder leaves them scrambling for a chef. Can Quincie transform the new hire, Henry Johnson, into a culinary Dark Lord before opening night? Will he be able to to wow the crowd in fake fangs, a cheap cape, and red contact lenses? Or is there mais to his earnest fresh face than meets the eye?
As human and preternatural forces clash a deadly amor triângulo forms and the line between predator and prey begins to blur. Who's playing whom? And how long can Quincie play along before she loses everything?
Here is a piece about the book:
Quincie Morris has never felt mais alone. Her hybrid werewolf first amor threatens to embark on a rite of passage that will separate them forever. And just as she and her uncle are about to unveil Austin's red-hot vampire-themed restaurant, a brutal murder leaves them scrambling for a chef. Can Quincie transform the new hire, Henry Johnson, into a culinary Dark Lord before opening night? Will he be able to to wow the crowd in fake fangs, a cheap cape, and red contact lenses? Or is there mais to his earnest fresh face than meets the eye?
As human and preternatural forces clash a deadly amor triângulo forms and the line between predator and prey begins to blur. Who's playing whom? And how long can Quincie play along before she loses everything?
The Life and Career of Marie Osmond
The Kardashian Ladies
Losing to Win! author Randy Jernigan
Here is a list some of my favotite books.
Scibbler of dreams mary .e pearson
Beautiful disaster
walking disaster por jamie mcguire
Easy por tammara webber
Grave mercy por R.L LAfevers
Anna and the french kiss
LoLa and the boy seguinte door por stephanie perkins
The selection
Elite por kiera cass
Pushing the limits por katie mcgarry
The pledge
The essance por kimberly derting
Unearthly por cynthia hand
Bar code tatto
Bar code rebellion por suzanne weyn
Vampire academy series
Bloodlines series por richelle mead
Goddess test series por aime carter
Perfect you por elizabeth scott
Hex hall series por rachel hawkins
Scibbler of dreams mary .e pearson
Beautiful disaster
walking disaster por jamie mcguire
Easy por tammara webber
Grave mercy por R.L LAfevers
Anna and the french kiss
LoLa and the boy seguinte door por stephanie perkins
The selection
Elite por kiera cass
Pushing the limits por katie mcgarry
The pledge
The essance por kimberly derting
Unearthly por cynthia hand
Bar code tatto
Bar code rebellion por suzanne weyn
Vampire academy series
Bloodlines series por richelle mead
Goddess test series por aime carter
Perfect you por elizabeth scott
Hex hall series por rachel hawkins
Here's the trailer
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Watch it and comment if you like it or not.
Also, I highly recommend to read the Hunger Games trilogy.
The genres of the film/ books is action.
Set in the near future, a girl called Katniss Everdeen volunteered to enter the Hunger Games, a game which is run por the government.
24 'tributes' will enter the arena and fight to the death until one person is remaining, who will be the winner.
Read Katniss' fights to stay alive as she battles the other 24 tributes to win her place as the winner.
Watch out for The Hunger Games, everyone will be talking about it within the following year.
Soren is born in the forest of Tyto,a tranquil kingdom where the celeiro Owls dwell. But evil lurks in the owl world,evil that threatens to shatter Tyto's peace and change the course of Soren's life forever.
Soren is captured and taken to a dark and forbidding canyon. It's called an orphanage,but Soren believes it's something far worse. He and his friend Gylfie know that the only way out is up. To escape,they will need to something they have never done before-fly.
And so begins a magical journey. Along the way,Soren and Gylfie meet Twilight and Digger. The four owls band together to seek the truth and protect the owl world from unimaginable danger.
Soren is captured and taken to a dark and forbidding canyon. It's called an orphanage,but Soren believes it's something far worse. He and his friend Gylfie know that the only way out is up. To escape,they will need to something they have never done before-fly.
And so begins a magical journey. Along the way,Soren and Gylfie meet Twilight and Digger. The four owls band together to seek the truth and protect the owl world from unimaginable danger.
