“Just another part of that Spartan killer instinct. I can slay the ladies just as well as I can reapers.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Crimson Frost
“I know that look. What are you up to, Gwen?"
"What makes you think I'm up to something?"
The Valkyrie snorted. "You're breathing, aren't you?”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Crimson Frost
“What was it with people always trying to kill me in the library? Nickamedes so needed to put up warning signs. Danger: Working here could be hazardous to your health.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Crimson Frost
“No matter what happens, I'll always come back to you."
"Promise?" I asked in a shaky voice.
Logan's eyes burned with icy determination. "Promise.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Crimson Frost
“Let him look," he whispered and kissed me again.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Crimson Frost
“Now, even Nickamedes was being nice to me, which told me exactly how much trouble I was in.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Crimson Frost
“Maybe there was something to be said for creepy statues after all.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Crimson Frost
“I’ll meet you there, pumpkin,” Grandma said. “And I’ll bring my sword with me.”
― Jennifer Estep, quote from Crimson Frost
“Since knowledge, thinking, and rational action are properties of the individual, since the choice to exercise his rational faculty or not depends on the individual, man’s survival requires that those who think be free of the interference of those who don’t. Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man’s mind.
A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone’s orders, directives, or controls; it does not sacrifice its knowledge, its view of the truth, to anyone’s opinions, threats, wishes, plans, or “welfare.” Such a mind may be hampered by others, it may be silenced, proscribed, imprisoned, or destroyed; it cannot be forced; a gun is not an argument. (An example and symbol of this attitude is Galileo.)
It is from the work and the inviolate integrity of such minds—from the intransigent innovators—that all of mankind’s knowledge and achievements have come. (See The Fountainhead.) It is to such minds that mankind owes its survival. (See Atlas Shrugged.)”
― Ayn Rand, quote from Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“Things aren't always what they seem, are they?”
― quote from The Anybodies
“There is nothing more futile, when dealing with this condition, than to act on the assumption that all Christians are identical in every respect.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, quote from Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cure
“My unhappiness was something deep inside me, and when i closed my eyes i could even see it. it sat somehwere - maybe in my belly, maybe in my heart; i could not exactly tell - and it took the shape of a small black ball, all wrapped up in cobwebs. i would look at it and look at it until i had burned the cobwebs away, and then i would see that the ball was no bigger than a thimble, even though it weighed worlds. at that moment, just when i saw its size and felt its weight, i was beyond feeling sorry for myself, which is to say i was beyond tears. i could only just sit and look at myself, feeling like the oldest person who had ever lived and who had not learned a single thing.”
― Jamaica Kincaid, quote from Annie John
“…the loneliness…the “inexpressibly delicious" sensation of this memory - for as memories are older they’re like wine rarer, till if you find a real old memory, one of infancy, not an established often tasted one but a brand new one, it would taste better than the Napoleon brandy Stendhal himself must have stared at…”
― Jack Kerouac, quote from Visions of Cody
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