“I'm trying to feel sorry for you, really I am,"North said."If you wait just a moment I'm sure the tears will come.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Brightly Woven
“He's just like a stallion. Wild and kicking on the outside, but a heart soft as satin on the inside. Just waiting for the right girl to break him in.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Brightly Woven
“He held me against him gently, as if I was glass - as if I could shatter and fall away from him at any moment and leave him breathless and alone once more.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Brightly Woven
“What good is strength if you have no sense?”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Brightly Woven
“If you're going to knock down my suggestion, you'd better have one to replace it.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Brightly Woven
“Genet raised his hand, and I squeezed my eyes shut, sure I would be receiving the worst backhanded slap of my life.
Genet froze and whimpered, but didn't back away.
"Oh, ho," said a familiar voice. "That was close !" I opened my eyes as North's free hand - the one that hadn't caught Genet's wrist - gently pulled my arm free. I pushed myself away from both of them.
"You interrupt my business ?" Genet sputtered. "Do you know what this wench just accused me of being ?"
"A filthy pig," North said good-naturedly. "But there's only one filthy pig allowed in her life, and the position's been filled.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Brightly Woven
“Ah, I thought, feeling the first brush of tingling warmth as we fell into the unknown. Magic.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Brightly Woven
“He doesn't bring many girls round unless they're part of a job - but also 'cause his smell can sometimes kill kittens.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Brightly Woven
“It's in our blood to start again.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Brightly Woven
“You're a wizard," I snapped. "Can't you just use magic to make your own food?"
"Ah, yes," he retorted. "Because mud pies are so very delicious and the wind fills empty stomachs quite nicely.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Brightly Woven
“Up! you bag of bones!"
"Magister? Gods i was hoping that was a dream.......
You're disturbing Ms. Mirabil!!!
"She's awake!! North said, kicking off his covers and kneeling beside my bed, a bright smile on his face. "Hullo my beautiful beautiful darling, feeling better today??”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Brightly Woven
“No part of you is dark or ugly,' I said sharply, squeezing his hand. 'Not to me, not ever. Do you understand?”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Brightly Woven
“Owain crossed his arms over his chest. "I've gone straight. Only good, clean jobs for me now."
"So, in other words," North said, "you're living in poverty?”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Brightly Woven
“Well, have you ever thought of bathing?' I asked, turning away. 'No one wants to hire a wizard who smells worse than their outhouse. And who knows what creatures are living in that hair?”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Brightly Woven
“Real friends are hard to come by, and as annoying as Henry is, he'd throw himself in front of dragon's fire for you."
"And that's the definition of a real friend?"
"Oh, yes, just ask Owain." He laughed.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Brightly Woven
“Seeing that my words had done absolutely nothing to pull North from whatever depths he was clinging to, Owain did what came naturally. He smacked North upside the head hard enough to send him sprawling into the window. And when it seemed that North would turn around and return the favor, Owain hit him again, harder.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Brightly Woven
“I don't do well without you," he said. "Who I was before--I never want to be that person again. But I told you when I took you away from here that when everything was over, it would be your choice. You would get to choose where you wanted to go and who you wanted to be.”
― Alexandra Bracken, quote from Brightly Woven
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“We’re going to discuss only four or five different problems the Earth has, though there are multiple different scenarios going on. If any one of these scenarios were to break down, all life on the planet would eventually die. And at the moment, they’re all about to break down — it’s just a matter of which one breaks down first. And whenever one system goes, then all the rest of them will go eventually, and that’s it, there won’t be any more human life. It will be over with, and we’ll end up just like Mars or the dinosaurs. A few years ago, around the turn of this century, there were thirty million species of life forms on Earth — thirty million different species of life. In 1993 there were about fifteen million. It took billions of years to create these life forms, and in less than a blink of an eye, a mere hundred years, half of the life on this dear Earth is dead. Around thirty species a minute are now becoming extinct somewhere. If you were to watch this planet from space, it would appear to be dying very, very rapidly. Yet we’re going on as though nothing’s happening and everything’s great. We’re sticking money in the bank and driving our cars and just wiggling right on. Yet from an honest point of view, we have a real life-and-death problem going on here on Earth, and few people seem to be really serious about it.”
― Drunvalo Melchizedek, quote from The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life: Volume 1
“love itself is malleable and ever-changing. Its intensity and nature varies, and this influences its flow, its mutable forms. Monogamy tells us that successful, "real" relationships all look about the same. Relationships that last a long time are called successes, without regard to misery, and those that”
― Franklin Veaux, quote from More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory
“Every living thing is precious somehow.”
― T.A. Barron, quote from The Seven Songs of Merlin
“Less welcome to the people of Paneron is the STIFLER, a humid wind that brings the allergenic pollen of carp-weed bushes from nearby unpopulated islands.”
― Christopher Priest, quote from The Islanders
“Chile was the last country in the Western Hemisphere to legalize divorce,”
― Héctor Tobar, quote from Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free
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