“Your home is where your family is... Where someone waits for you and thinks about you.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from A Hero For WondLa
“So, Eva Nine, you must sometimes disregard what someone is saying and focus instead on what they are doing. Watch and observe. That is when one reveals his true self.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from A Hero For WondLa
“It reveals that people are confusing."
Rovender corrected her. "Not Confusing. Complex.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from A Hero For WondLa
“Strength is not just in muscle and bone," Rovender said
"That is right," Soth added. "Emotional strength is more powerful.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from A Hero For WondLa
“As Antiquus's son, I was next in line to be the leader of my village... But leadership is not inherited. It is earned through action.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from A Hero For WondLa
“Man was not designed to eat pills and powders and all the other chemicals they pump you full of. We were meant to live off the land in harmony with it. Not in some safety bubble.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from A Hero For WondLa
“We did not know that she had passed," Soth said. She held a palm up to the air. "Hopefully, her spirit has found serenity."
The council did the same. "Spirit find Serenity," they said in unison.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from A Hero For WondLa
“The essence will be evident everywhere. In all that the citizens do: in their art, music, food, and their buildings. If the essence of a place nourishes your spirit, then it is a good place to be" -Rovender”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from A Hero For WondLa
“Some things we must learn through experience. That is how one truly lives." -Rovender”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from A Hero For WondLa
“But leadership is not inherited. It is earned through action. You are a leader, Eva Nine. A hero. And you are my WondLa" -Rovender”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from A Hero For WondLa
“It is because they are happier when they are together. They are safe. They are strong.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from A Hero For WondLa
“One can find happiness in a variety of places. It can be in a busy city of many, such as Solas; but it may also be alone, deep in a tranquil forest. It is not always among your kind" -Rovender”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from A Hero For WondLa
“We have someone with us who is dying--someone whose spirit is ready to leave this world, she thought to the tree. But he wants to be with his clan. With his forest. Will you take us?”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from A Hero For WondLa
“True, it has given its life," Rovender said. "But its energy, its spirit, will replenish yours. Respect that and enjoy the meal.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from A Hero For WondLa
“Eva, I recognize your confusion. It is not always easy to understand another's spirit, especially if you do not know where to look" -Rovender”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from A Hero For WondLa
“One can din happiness in a variety of places. It can be in a busy city of many, such as Solas; but it may also be alone, deep in a tranquil forest. It is not always among your kind" -Rovender”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from A Hero For WondLa
“A heart of compassion is just as hard to hold within you as one of indifference" -the Truth Bird”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from A Hero For WondLa
“A child needs his parent at all times, Father. Not just when life is smiling down upon him" -Rovender”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from A Hero For WondLa
“Some things we must learn through experience. That is how one truly lives.”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from A Hero For WondLa
“The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for them. Columbus and America. Pinzón who stumbled on Brazil while looking for the West Indies. Stanley happening on Victoria Falls. And you. Amy Curry when I was least expecting her."
I smiled back at him while feeling sharply just how much I was going to miss him. It was almost a physical pain. "I'm on that list?"
"You're at the top of that list." He leaned over and kissed me and I kissed back.”
― Morgan Matson, quote from Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
“I don't want it to be attributed to a loss of control on my part. When I throw you out of the window, I want there to be no doubt the act was deliberate.”
― Ilona Andrews, quote from Magic Burns
“Chil', there things in this world you don't know about yet. We your family, that never change. Even when you find a white boy and gets married, we still your family. Mama always your mama, Belle always your Belle."
I stopped crying. "What about Papa and Ben?" I asked hopefully.
"They watch out for you just like now. Abinia" - Mama looked into my eyes - "you on the winnin' side. One day might be you lookin' out for us.”
― Kathleen Grissom, quote from The Kitchen House
“Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave. No one can deny another person their right to life nor seize by force what is produced by someone else, because that is stealing their means to sustain their life. It is treason against mankind to hold a knife to a man's throat and dictate how he must live his life. No society can be more important than individuals who compose it, or else you ascribe supreme importance, not to man, but any notion that strikes the fancy of that society, at a never-ending cost of lives. Reason and reality are the only means to just laws; mindless wishes, if given sovereignty, becomes deadly masters.”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Faith of the Fallen
“The rain forest has its own defenses. The earth’s immune system, so to speak, has recognized the presence of the human species and is starting to kick in. The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by the human parasite. Perhaps AIDS is the first step in a natural process of clearance.”
― Richard Preston, quote from The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
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