“It is not as though we have not heard of you, Captain Laurence. We have all had a great many arguments, whether your aid would not be too expensive, to begin with.”
“Sir,” Laurence said, now baffled, “I beg your pardon; however should you know me from Adam?”
“If the world had not heard of you, after your adventure at Gdansk,” Kutuzov said, meaning Danzig, where they had rescued the garrison from the wreck of the Prussian campaign, “or after the plague, we should certainly have heard of you after Brazil. Where you go, you leave half the world overturned behind you. You are more dangerous than Bonaparte in your own way, you and that beast of yours.”
― Naomi Novik, quote from Blood of Tyrants
“The water-dragon’s name was Lady Kiyomizu, although much to Junichiro’s horror she breezily told Laurence to call her Kiyo, and not to stand on formality. “You have no manners anyway,” she said, “and there is no sense your trying to put out sakura blossoms, when you are a bamboo.”
― Naomi Novik, quote from Blood of Tyrants
“The passageway smelled of smoke: burning wood, a torch, acrid. His head ached. Blood was wet and sticky upon his arm and on his fingers, and the orange glow of torchlight played from behind his back and over the corridor walls, leaping like a bonfire. There was a strange familiarity to it: the narrow walls in around him. And when he came to a wooden door set in the wall, he put his hand upon it and pushed it open.
There was a room, and a pallet inside it; a small torch burned low in a socket upon the wall. A man lay upon the cot, his face bruised and battered, his hands curled against his chest bloody: and Laurence knew him; knew him and knew himself. He remembered another door opening, in Bristol, three years before, and a voice asking him to come outside his prison, in a Britain under siege.
“Tenzing,” Laurence said, and, as Tharkay opened feverish eyes, went to help him stand.”
― Naomi Novik, quote from Blood of Tyrants
“The river flows to the sea, whatever the wind says about it”
― Naomi Novik, quote from Blood of Tyrants
“... there is no sense your trying to put out sakura blossoms, when you are a bamboo.”
― Naomi Novik, quote from Blood of Tyrants
“I am of the opinion", Tharkay said, "that you ought not assign to free will something more likely the consequence of a sharp blow to the skull.”
― Naomi Novik, quote from Blood of Tyrants
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“If I'm confused, or upset, or angry, if I can go out and look at the stars I'll almost always get back a sense of proportion. It's not that they make me feel insignificant; it's the very opposite; they make me feel that everything matters, be it ever so small, and that there's meaning to life even when it seems most meaningless.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, quote from A Ring of Endless Light
“I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid. —JOHN 14: 27 NLT”
― Max Lucado, quote from Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear
“So few people were left who knew what combat was like. People were so easy to frighten. Combat taught a man what to fear – and what to ignore.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from The Cardinal of the Kremlin
“I can take care of myself, thank you very much.” Cole pulled a tomato half out of the salad and stuffed it into his mouth.
“That’s right. I heard you and Ron were good friends,” Booker said innocently, the first clue a joke was coming. Booker was many things, but innocent wasn’t one of them.
Cole studied him for a moment. “Okay, I know I’m going to hate myself for asking, but who is Ron?” Cole leaned against the counter and folded his arms across his chest, looking every bit the 6'3 3/4" that he was.
“You know, Ron, as in Ronald McDonald.”
I groaned. That was bad.
“I can cook,” Cole said indecisively.
“Doc, you’re the only person I know that can burn water!”
“I have never burn–okay, once. Are you ever going to forgive me?”
“You ruined my favorite pan!”
― Sherry Gammon, quote from Unlovable
“Stavo pensando", disse Prokop come se volesse farsi perdonare il suo silenzio, "com'è strano quando il vento gioca con gli oggetti inanimati. E' quasi miracoloso il modo in cui cose che giacciono in giro senza un briciolo di vita improvvisamente cominciano a svolazzare. Non ve ne siete accorti? Una volta stavo in una piazza deserta e guardavo un mucchio di cartacce che si rincorrevano l'un l'altra. Non sentivo il vento perché stavo in un angolo riparato, ma eccole là, ammassate insieme in una vera e propria danza della morte. Un attimo dopo sembrava che avessero stipulato un armistizio ma, tutto a un tratto, uno sbuffo irresistibile della memoria sembrava soffiare su di loro, e ricominciavano, ognuna correndo dietro alla sua vicina finché scomparvero dietro l'angolo. Rimase solo un giornale intero; stava impotente sul selciato, e sbatteva astiosamente di qua e di là: sembrava un pesce fuor d'acqua che boccheggiasse. Non potei fare a meno di pensare che noi, in fin dei conti, siamo proprio come quei pezzetti di carta svolazzanti, nient'altro. Siamo trascinati di qua e di là da un "vento" invisibile e incomprensibile, che ci obbliga a comportarci in un certo modo, per quanto -da vanitosi- ci vantiamo della nostra forza di volontà.”
― Gustav Meyrink, quote from The Golem
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