The Devil and Miss Prym Quotes: 1
"When we
least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness
to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has
happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait.
Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide
whether or not to accept our destiny.”
"Life can
seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.”
"In the
first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the
promises of riches, of eternal salvation, of infinite love. Some people think
they can promise anything, others accept whatever seems to guarantee better
days ahead, as, I suspect is your case. Those who make promises they don't keep
end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the fate awaits those who believe
promises.”
"She had
just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams:
believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some
sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that
moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road
heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of
losing forever everything that is familiar.”
"There
are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have
received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have
issued a threat.”
"So you
see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the
path of each individual human being.”
"Because
you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.”
"And one
more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case,
you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.”