“He smiled understandingly - much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced - or seemed to face - the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.

Translation
#fscottfitzgerald

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
- Frank Herbert, Dune.

Translation
#frankherbert

📓 Vocabulary Revision Tests 17/07 - 23/07
🗒 25 questions · ⏱ ≈ 4 minutes

#exercises

“May I see you again?" he asked. There was an endearing nervousness in his voice.
I smiled. "Sure."
"Tomorrow?" he asked.
"Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager."
"Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow."
I rolled my eyes.
"I'm serious," he said.
"You don't even know me," I said. I grabbed the book from the center console. "How about I call you when I finish this?"
"But you don't even have my phone number," he said.
"I strongly suspect you wrote it in this book."
He broke out into that goofy smile. "And you say we don't know each other.”
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars.

Translation
#johngreen

“I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
- Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, the Whale.

Translation
#hermanmelville

“It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”
- Isaac Asimov, I, Robot.

Translation
#isaacasimov

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
- Joseph Campbell.

Tranlsation
#josephcampbell

📓 Vocabulary Revision Tests 24/07 - 30/07
🗒 14 questions · ⏱ ≈ 2 minutes

#exercises

“Eeyore, the old grey Donkey, stood by the side of the stream, and looked at himself in the water.
“Pathetic,” he said. “That’s what it is. Pathetic.”
He turned and walked slowly down the stream for twenty yards, splashed across it, and walked slowly back on the other side. Then he looked at himself in the water again.
“As I thought,” he said. “No better from THIS side. But nobody minds. Nobody cares. Pathetic, that’s what it is.”
There was a crackling noise in the bracken behind him, and out came Pooh.
“Good morning, Eeyore,” said Pooh.
“Good morning, Pooh Bear,” said Eeyore gloomily. “If it IS a good morning,” he said. “Which I doubt,” said he.
“Why, what’s the matter?”
“Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can’t all, and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it.”
“Can’t all WHAT?” said Pooh, rubbing his nose.
“Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush. ...I’m not complaining, but There It Is.”
- A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner.

Translation
#aamilne

“The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there’s anyone in the world who would like us to live
- Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes.

Translation
#frankmccourt

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
- C.S. Lewis.

Translation
#cslewis

“Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate
I am the captain of my soul.”
- William Ernest Henley, Invictus.

Listen
Translation
#williamernesthenley

“You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes.

Translation
#arthurconandoyle

“The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

Translate
#georgerrmartin

“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
- Jack London.

Translation
#jacklondon

"Books. Quotes. English" bot

“Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was. So the older ones have become glassy-eyed and seldom speak (winking is the star language), but the little ones still wonder.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan.

Translation
#jmbarrie

"Books. Quotes. English" bot

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Translation
#jkrowling

"Books. Quotes. English" bot