“Is this some sort of test?"
"Everything that doesn't kill you is."
"Mind you," he added, "surviving doesn't always mean you passed.”
― Michelle Sagara, quote from Cast in Secret
“ Generally, I like to appear smart. I don't admit being stupid when there's any hope I'm not.”
― Michelle Sagara, quote from Cast in Secret
“You'll be with me, won't you?"
"indeed."
"Then what could go wrong?"
Lord Sanabalis visibly grimaced. "You clearly do not believe in angry gods.”
― Michelle Sagara, quote from Cast in Secret
“If hearts really could sink, Kaylin's was busily rearranging her internal organs.”
― Michelle Sagara, quote from Cast in Secret
“When you have all eternity, the word hurry is relative."
"And the guards, being mortal, have less of it, and their version of slugglish doesn't approach your version of fast?"
"Something very like that.”
― Michelle Sagara, quote from Cast in Secret
“We’re not what we were. We’re not what we will be. Everyone changes. Everyone can change. Let it go.”
― Michelle Sagara, quote from Cast in Secret
“Where are you going?” Kaylin stopped. “I’m following you.” “Which is usually done from behind.”
― Michelle Sagara, quote from Cast in Secret
“This book will take you two days to read. Did you even see the cover? It’s mostly pink. If you’re reading this book every night for months, something is not right.”
― Mindy Kaling, quote from Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
“You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . .”
― Thomas Harris, quote from Hannibal
“My mom used to talk about fate all the time, and I think you’re it… you’re my fate. You were brought to me for a reason, for us to save each other. Because you weren’t the only one needing saved, Haven. I was drowning, and you rescued me.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Sempre
“Her friend - and her partner on the stage. You will not believe me, but making love to Kitty - a thing done in passion, but always, too, in shadow and silence, and with an ear half-cocked for the sound of footsteps on the stairs - making love to Kitty and posing at her side in a shaft of limelight, before a thousand pairs of eyes, to a script I knew by heart, in an attitude I had laboured for hours to perfect - these things were not so very different. A double act is always twice the act that the audience thinks it; beyond our songs, our steps, our bits of business with coins and canes and flowers, there was a private language, in which we held an endless, delicate exchange of which the crowd knew nothing. This was a language not of the tongue but of the body, its vocabulary the pressure of a finger or a palm, the nudging of a hip, the holding or breaking of a gaze, that said, You are too slow - you got too fast - not there but here - that's good - that's better! It was as if we walked before the crimson curtain, lay down upon the boards and kissed and fondled - and were clapped, and cheered, and paid for it!”
― Sarah Waters, quote from Tipping the Velvet
“Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.”
― Lemony Snicket, quote from The Wide Window
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