“I think I’m the most hurt by the fact that I’m not like him. I would’ve chosen him over everything else. The whole world could’ve burned down and I would’ve pulled him from the wreckage of it.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Darken the Stars
“You’re so adorable sometimes. I almost don’t regret not killing you.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Darken the Stars
“She’s a loner. She pays her own way. She is someone who doesn’t know her place, or if she does, she doesn’t abide by the rules. She’ll see right through your lies. She’ll steal your heart without even trying. She’ll blink at you with a million whispers in the night while she holds your hand as if she’s the only one who fits it right. You’ll want to carry her bones inside your bones.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Darken the Stars
“You can’t be serious!” “I’m so serious.” “He’s a psychopath.” “He’s my psychopath.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Darken the Stars
“Even swimming in sorrow, he won’t let me drown.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Darken the Stars
“You’ve changed me. I want to be the favorite taste that touches your lips.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Darken the Stars
“it eat my brain?” I ask. He looks confused. “No.” “Mind control?” I ask. “I wish.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Darken the Stars
“He becomes a thief, wiping away my tears with the back of his hand, trying to steal my sorrow from me.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Darken the Stars
“I’m not in love with him. I would never call it that. It’s more of a growing fascination with him. He’s unlike anyone I’ve ever known, but he’s maladjusted and broken—unpredictable and frightening.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Darken the Stars
“I’m just a collection of sad stories, Kyon.” “I”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Darken the Stars
“Then you might have to kill everyone.” “So be it.” “Why are you so crazy?” I ask as I gently rest my forehead against his chest.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Darken the Stars
“No one has ever worn my clothes before.” “No one would dare,” I murmur. “You’re a scary beast.” “You dared.” “I did, but I have a problem with authority.” He”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Darken the Stars
“He has an equal stack of pancakes on his plate. He picks up his fork and says, “You know these aren’t very good for Pretty Town.”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Darken the Stars
“You. Must. Chill. Do you know what that means?” He looks at me in exasperation. “I never know what you’re trying to say. I have no idea what being cold brings to this situation.” For”
― Amy A. Bartol, quote from Darken the Stars
“There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy”
― Julia Gregson, quote from East of the Sun
“He perched on the end of the bed like some elegant dark bird. A very beautiful bird, she decided. His looks were similar to the laird’s, their kinship plain to see, but his beauty was far more refined. The color of his eyes was more golden than brown, a little too similar to those of some beast of the forest. He suddenly smiled at her and she tensed. “I saw ye,” she said. “Ye came from out of the hills, from behind me.” “Aye, just as those bastards readied themselves to attack,” replied Jankyn. Images crowded her mind so quickly they made her head ache. “Those men who were chasing me?” “And willnae chase ye again. Their thieving, murdering days are at an end.” She”
― Hannah Howell, quote from The Eternal Highlander
“They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, quote from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“This kind of war was full of fascinating thrills. It was not like the Great War. Nobody expected to be killed. Here and there in every regiment or battalion, half a dozen, a score, at the worst thirty or forty, would pay forfeit; but to the great mass of those who took part in the little wars of Britain in those vanished and light-hearted days, this was only a sporting element in a splendid game. Most of us were fated to se a war where the hazards were reversed, where death was the general expectation and severe wounds were counted as lucky escapes, where whole brigades were shorn away under the steel flail of artillery and machine-guns, where the survivors of one tornado knew that they would certainly be consumed in the next or the next after that.
Everything depends upon the scale of events. We young men who lay down to sleep that night within three miles of 60,000 well-armed fanatical Dervishes, expecting every moment their violent onset or inrush and sure of fighting at latest with the dawn – we may perhaps be pardoned if we thought we were at grips with real war.”
― Winston S. Churchill, quote from My Early Life, 1874-1904
“Socrates: So even our walks are dangerous here. But you seem to have avoided the most dangerous thing of all.
Bertha: What's that?
Socrates: Philosophy.
Bertha: Oh, we have philosophers here.
Socrates: Where are they?
Bertha: In the philosophy department.
Socrates: Philosophy is not department.
Bertha: Well, we have philosophers.
Socrates: Are they dangerous?
Bertha: Of course not.
Socrates: Then they are not true philosophers.”
― Peter Kreeft, quote from Socrates Meets Jesus: History's Greatest Questioner Confronts the Claims of Christ
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