Kent Quotes

“i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a
base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited,
hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a
lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson,
glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue;
one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a
bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but
the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar,
and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I
will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest
the least syllable of thy addition.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. *all cheer for Shakespearean insults*”
― William Shakespeare

“I'm beginning to wonder," said Kent, sitting down now on an overturned wooden tub. "Who do I serve? Why am I here?"

You are here, because, in the expanding ethical ambiguity of our situation, you are steadfast in your righteousness. It is to you, our banished friend, that we all turn—a light amid the dark dealings of family and politics. You are the moral backbone on which the rest of us hang our bloody bits. Without you we are merely wiggly masses of desire writhing in our own devious bile."

Really?" asked the old knight.

Aye," said I.

I'm not sure I want to keep company with you lot, then.”
― Christopher Moore, Fool

“I was going to tell you that you look beautiful with your hair down. That's all I was going to say.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“And then, just at that moment, when I'm no longer sure if I'm dreaming or awake or walking some valley in between where everything you wish for comes true, I feel the flutter of his lips on mine, but it's too late, I'm slipping, I'm gone, he's gone, and the moment curls away and back on itself like a flower folding up for the night.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“...I've never really had a party before."
"Why did you have one now?" I say, just to keep him talking.
He gives a half laugh. "I thought if I had a party, you would come.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“Why do you flirt with Mr. Daimler? He's a perv, you know."
I'm so surprised by the question it takes me a second to answer. "Mr. Daimler is not a perv."
"Trust me, he is."
"Jealous?"
"Hardly."
"I don't flirt with him, anyway."
Kent rolls his eyes. "Sure."
I shrug my shoulders. "Why so interested?"
Kent goes red and drops his eyes to the floor. "No reason," he mumbles.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“And I realized that this is what it's like to be an adult, learning to pick from a lot of bad choices and do the best you can with that dreadful compromise. Learning to smile, to put your best foot forward, when the world around you seems to have collapsed in its entirety, become a place of isolation, a sepia photograph of its former illusion.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Chilbury Ladies' Choir

“Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least; nor are those empty-hearted whose low sounds reverb no hollowness.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“One weekend in the vacation, I was invited to meet her family. They lived in Kent, out on the Orpington line, in one of those suburbs which had stopped concreting over nature at the very last minute, and ever since smugly claimed rural status.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“Ne olursa olsun, hangi biçimde olursa olsun kentler düzenine katıldığın, onun bir parçası olduğun andan sonra, salt dürüstlük yalnızca bir yanılsamadır.”
― Tahsin Yücel, Gökdelen

“Rivayet öyleymiş ki eskiden insanlar sadece tek bir şehirde yaşarlarmış.”
― Özlem Güzelharcan, Kırkikindi Yağmurları

“Büyük bir şehirde harika yollar, güzel köprüler, hoş parklar, enfes bahçeler ve müthiş binalar vardır ama bir şey eksiktir, çok önemli bir şey: Doğanın ruhu!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Sabahları horozların ötüşlerini duymuyorsan, sen lanetli bir şehir insanısın!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Paris’in tarihi var, sanatı var, harika mimarisi var, edebiyatı var, fakat bütün bunlardan çok daha önemlisi özgürlüğü var! Eğer bir şehir kendi sakinlerine özgürlük veremiyorsa bütün öteki güzellikleri anlamsız olacaktır!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“She didn't say anything, just a long, quiet "shhhh," as if she had learned that the troubles of the world could be absorbed and deafened by slow, steady wistfulness, and I suddenly understood that she'd been silencing the noise for the past twenty years.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Chilbury Ladies' Choir

“Sıradan bir şehir yaratmak her zaman kolaydır, zor olan sıra dışı olanı yaratmaktır, huzurlu ve dinlendirici olanı, akıllı ve düzeyli, sanatsal ve edebi olanı, kısacası yaşanabilir olanı! Ve Zürih böyle bir şehirdir!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Fevkalade kısa bir zaman için gelmiş ecnebilerin bir saatlik serbest zamana sahip olur olmaz kalesine tırmandıkları ve hayat, maişet zoruyla birleştikleri takdirde etrafındaki tabiat manzaralarının vahşi ve acı güzelliğini methettikleri bu Ankara’nın bir kaç yüz metrelik sahasında, apartman, banka, lokanta, bar, sinemadan teşekkül eden murabba dışına adım atmamak, hiç bir tarafa uzanmamak üzere dönüş.”
― Nahid Sırrı Örik, Tersine Giden Yol