Jacob De Zoet Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orito banishes all thoughts of Jacob de Zoet, and recalls Jacob de Zoet. — David Mitchell

An alien calm crept slowly over me. It was dark, full of bitterness and growing fascination. — Anne Rice

I turned forty, and I'm finally going to get married and maybe have a kid. — Rick Moody

I have defined Ladies as people who did not do things themselves. — Gwen Raverat

It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power. — Gautama Buddha

I look at all my projects as a stair step to the next. My goal is to always get better and better. — Andrae Crouch

The clock's pendulum catches the firelight, and in the rattle-breathed final moments of Jacob de Zoet, amber shadows in the far corner coagulate into a woman's form.
She slips between the bigger, taller onlookers unnoticed ...
... and adjusts her headscarf, the better to hide her burn.
She places her cool palms on Jacob's fever-glazed face.
Jacob sees himself, when he was young, in her narrow eyes.
Her lips touch the place between his eyebrows.
A well-waxed paper door slides open. — David Mitchell

I ... understand that age is kind of awesome. I am fortunate enough to know women like Gloria Steinem - who I think is one of the most stunning women on the planet - [who] doesn't touch her face. Diane Keaton, Annette Bening - all of these fabulous, fearless women who are flawless - they embrace it! — Jennifer Aniston

At some point, you'll love someone enough to trust them. by not sharing pieces of yourself, after a period of time, you're essentially saying to them, you don't trust or love them. — Anonymous

In recent years, our society has been required to think again of the issues of use and abuse of human beings. We understand, for instance, that the inability to distinguish between a particular woman and any woman is a condition predisposing to abuse. It is time that we learn to apply the same understanding to our country. The inability to distinguish between a farm and any farm is a condition predisposing to abuse, and abuse has been the result. Rape, indeed, has been the result, and we have seen that we are not exempt from the damage we have inflicted. Now we must think of marriage. — Wendell Berry