“I never knew a woman could be fierce and beautiful and smart before I met you. Every time I see you I think of a hawk, beautiful and deadly.”
― Patrick W. Carr, quote from A Cast of Stones
“Maybe collecting bruises was the only way to learn how to fight.”
― Patrick W. Carr, quote from A Cast of Stones
“A figure stood at the far end, cloaked in black and beckoning him.”
― Patrick W. Carr, quote from A Cast of Stones
“Once Errol righted himself into some semblance of horsemanship, they set off at an easy canter. That is, the other horses set off at a canter, while Errol's horse settled into a teeth-shattering trot. After a hundred paces he could feel Horace's backbone through the saddle. The other riders pulled ahead without a backward glance, leaving him to his four-footed torture.”
― Patrick W. Carr, quote from A Cast of Stones
“He pulled his hand back, aware now that sweat beaded on his forehead and that Rale watched him, his eyes dark, intense. Errol licked his lips. Did he want a drink? He hadn't gone more than two days in a row without a drink since he was...since...Warrel...the quarry...stone.”
― Patrick W. Carr, quote from A Cast of Stones
“The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be discerned.”
― Patrick W. Carr, quote from A Cast of Stones
“Some men are more easily broken by kindness than censure.”
― Patrick W. Carr, quote from A Cast of Stones
“Never fight a battle that doesn't need to be fought.”
― Patrick W. Carr, quote from A Cast of Stones
“Unless you have to, never fight a battle you now you're going to lose.”
― Patrick W. Carr, quote from A Cast of Stones
“Why did people insist on starting journeys before the sun got warm? It couldn’t be healthy.”
― Patrick W. Carr, quote from A Cast of Stones
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“I can do both at the same time," he assured me. "I'm talented like that.”
― Kasie West, quote from On the Fence
“Sheila. Her betrayal pierced me deep, struck bone. To defend her now, to think I had been anything more to her than a dupe, would be to turn a blind eye in the worst way. You would have to be naïve beyond Pollyanna, to have rose-tinted glasses melded onto your face, to not be able to see the truth.”
― Harlan Coben, quote from Gone for Good
“saying. ‘I want it as a birthday present to my venerable”
― Esther Forbes, quote from Johnny Tremain
“A ship, like a human being, moves best when it is slightly athwart the wind, when it has to keep its sails tight and attend its course. Ships, like men, do poorly when the wind is directly behind, pushing them sloppily on their way so that no care is required in steering or in the management of sails; the wind seems favorable, for it blows in the direction one is heading, but actually it is destructive because it induces a relaxation in tension and skill. What is needed is a wind slightly opposed to the ship, for then tension can be maintained, and juices can flow and ideas can germinate, for ships, like men, respond to challenge.”
― James A. Michener, quote from Chesapeake
“I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature. I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I appear generous in order to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that I am conciliatory in order not to succumb to my repressed rage, that I am punctual only to hide how little I care about other people’s time. I learned, in short, that love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, quote from Memories of My Melancholy Whores
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