“Memories - you can't escape them, but you can't let them rule you either.”
― Rob Thurman, quote from Deathwish
“I'd be a monster fighter who rode the bus. It didn't get any more bad-ass than that.”
― Rob Thurman, quote from Deathwish
“You're so very good at that. The temper, the scowl. You must drink shots of testosterone in your morning coffee.”
― Rob Thurman, quote from Deathwish
“Fall leaves are brilliant with gold and red. You can cup them in your hand and wonder at them, be amazed at their uniqueness and glory. But eventually they are gone, brown, crumbling, scattered on the wind. But the tree remains. The tree is what is important. The tree lives on. That was a difficult knowledge to bear, and an even more difficult life to live. Of course, being the leaf wasn't exactly desirable either.”
― Rob Thurman, quote from Deathwish
“They don't have to choose either/or. They can have their cake and mutilate it too.”
― Rob Thurman, quote from Deathwish
“If there is no trust, there is nothing. Trust is all.”
― Rob Thurman, quote from Deathwish
“All I cared was that she had never lied. She was honest in a world just the opposite, and a cool oasis in my life. She was who she said she was, and everything Sophia, my mother, the pathologically manipulative liar, had never been.”
― Rob Thurman, quote from Deathwish
“And he had it all over Octavian, let me tell you. Hung like a Pegasus, he was.”
― Rob Thurman, quote from Deathwish
“remember what had happened. ‘I’ll just peep up through the hole in the cloud and see”
― Enid Blyton, quote from The Faraway Tree Stories
“Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, quote from Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
“All it takes is one bad apple to disgrace the whole tree.”
― Chris Colfer, quote from A Grimm Warning
“He estado haciendo una lista de las cosas que no te enseñan en la escuela. Ellos no te enseñan cómo amar a alguien. Ellos no te enseñan cómo ser famoso. Ellos no te enseñan cómo ser rico o cómo ser pobre. Ellos no te enseñan cómo alejarte de alguien a quien ya no amas. Ellos no te enseñan cómo saber lo que sucede en la mente de otra persona. Ellos no te enseñan qué decir a alguien que está muriendo. Ellos no te enseñan nada que valga la pena saber.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from The Kindly Ones
“Ellysetta Baristani is my shei'tani." His eyes found hers. "My truemate." A murmur of voices rippled through the crowd.
"Please tell the court what a truemate is."
"A truemate is the person who holds the other half of a Fey's soul." His gaze never left hers, and Ellie felt the magic of his voice wrapping her in imperceptible weaves of longing. "It is the most sacred bond known to any Fey, more sacred than that between a king and his subjects, more sacred even than that between a mother and a child.”
― C.L. Wilson, quote from Lord of the Fading Lands
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