“Have you seen what Gio’s wearing? Is it tights? Please tell me it’s tights.”
“Should it weird me out that you want to ogle my husband’s ass in a pair of tights?”
Dez just shook her head. “Not appreciating that ass would be like walking through the Sistine Chapel and not looking up.”
― Elizabeth Hunter, quote from A Fall of Water
“A guard spoke. “Stop, both of you! You may not enter the castle with weapons.”
Tenzin drew her sword in the space of a heartbeat, sliced off the head of the guard who spoke, and kept walking as the body crumbled to the ground. “Oh, really?”
― Elizabeth Hunter, quote from A Fall of Water
“This is my hall. And I do not--”
She was cut off as a sharp spear of fire shot out of Arosh’s fingers. Livia pulled a guard in front of her, who immediately turned to ash.
“Shut up, woman. I am speaking.”
― Elizabeth Hunter, quote from A Fall of Water
“Let it be enough, Tesoro. It has to be enough.”
― Elizabeth Hunter, quote from A Fall of Water
“Even a fool is counted wise when he holds his tongue.”
― Elizabeth Hunter, quote from A Fall of Water
“So, how’s school? How’s everything going?”
“Can Gio hear us?”
… “Yes”
“Oh, well then, it’s going magnificently. I’m so fortunate to have a knowledgeable and patient teacher like my uncle, who is imparting his centuries of wisdom into my eager young mind.”
― Elizabeth Hunter, quote from A Fall of Water
“I think that maybe I do want to learn to play”
… “Oh, I think you’re quite adept at playing already, Tesoro.”
“No.” She giggled. “An instrument.”
“I’m allowing that joke to pass. Too obvious.”
― Elizabeth Hunter, quote from A Fall of Water
“Was that on your husband profile right under your ability to burn pasta? Because, I'll be honest, anything after the description of your sexual skills I just skipped over.”
― Elizabeth Hunter, quote from A Fall of Water
“B, I swear, if you call her a cougar to her face, I will buy you a car.” Carwyn snickered. “A house. Maybe even an island.”
― Elizabeth Hunter, quote from A Fall of Water
“Loving you has been the finest thing I have done in five hundred years … I do not tell you enough.”
She looked up and smiled. “You tell me every night.”
“It is not enough … It is never enough”
“It is enough.”
“No.” … “Never enough. It should be the unceasing prayer on my lips. The echo in every breath I take.”
― Elizabeth Hunter, quote from A Fall of Water
“Tell the truth, why aren’t you going to kill me?”
…
“Because she is.”
― Elizabeth Hunter, quote from A Fall of Water
“One soul. Two bodies. My soul recognized its own. That is why I love you as I do. All the mysteries. All the secrets. That is the one truth we can hold to.”
― Elizabeth Hunter, quote from A Fall of Water
“I should be able to get her to you by dawn.”
“Good.”
“And yes, you will be somewhere very secluded.”
“Good.”
“Do me a favour, though, and try not to break any retaining walls, please.”
He smirked. “I’ll try my best, but I can’t make any promises.”
“You know what? You’re just going to buy this house from me. It’s sure to sustain damage, and I’ll never get the mental pictures out of my mind.”
“Done.”
“It’s not her, mind you. Picturing her--“
“It’s very important that you shut up now, Gavin.”
― Elizabeth Hunter, quote from A Fall of Water
“Nothing will inflame your enemies more than your silence. Give them nothing. Nothing to accuse you with. Nothing to condemn you. Let your actions speak for themselves. Never talk to an enemy, but listen always.”
― Elizabeth Hunter, quote from A Fall of Water
“Pride, my friends, is the deadliest of fires. While other flames burn the surface, pride burns from within. It works its way from the heart until it consumes you. And like any fire, it will eat its prey until it is smothered or quenched.”
― Elizabeth Hunter, quote from A Fall of Water
“Are you being a guidance counselor again? Stop playing with your food.”
― Elizabeth Hunter, quote from A Fall of Water
“If your right hand was lame, wouldn’t your left miss its mate? You might get along without it, but you’d always be aware that something was missing. That’s natural, not weak.”
― Elizabeth Hunter, quote from A Fall of Water
“Humanity”—he grinned—“really does not change that much, you will learn. But stories, the ebb and flow of ideas, creativity, all of these things are always changing.”
― Elizabeth Hunter, quote from A Fall of Water
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“I arise from dreams of thee
In the first sweet sleep of night,
When the winds are breathing low,
And the stars are shining bright.
I arise from dreams of thee,
And a spirit in my feet
Has led me -who knows how?
To thy chamber-window, Sweet!
The wandering airs they faint
On the dark, the silent stream -
The champak odours fail
Like sweet thoughts in a dream;
The nightingale's complaint,
It dies upon her heart,
As I must die on thine,
O beloved as thou art!
Oh lift me from the grass!
I die! I faint! I fail!
Let thy love in kisses rain
On my lips and eyelids pale.
My cheek is cold and white, alas!
My heart beats loud and fast;
Oh press it close to thine again,
Where it will break at last!”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, quote from The Complete Poems
“The faeries are kind of Switzerland with a big stick.”
― Rebecca Zanetti, quote from Fated
“Why, for example, wasn’t AIG required to reserve capital against them? Why, for that matter, were Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s willing to bless 80 percent of a pool of dicey mortgage loans with the same triple-A rating they bestowed on the debts of the U.S. Treasury? Why didn’t someone, anyone, inside Goldman Sachs stand up and say, “This is obscene. The rating agencies, the ultimate pricers of all these subprime mortgage loans, clearly do not understand the risk, and their idiocy is creating a recipe for catastrophe”?”
― Michael Lewis, quote from The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
“I have learned that I will not change the world, Jesus will do that. I can however, change the world for one person. I can change the world for fourteen little girls and for four hundred schoolchildren and for a sick and dying grandmother and for a malnourished, neglected, abused five-year old. And if one persons sees the love of Christ in me, it is worth every minute. In fact, it is worth spending my life for.”
― Katie J. Davis, quote from Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption
“Why does it have to be like this? Why does life have to be so short, with all the good things passing quickly. Is it worth living at all?”
― Joseph Delaney, quote from Night of the Soul Stealer
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