“Gently I touched his arm."Consider your promise fulfilled. You can go home now."
He raised his head to pierce me with his dark, anguished eyes. "I'm trying to -- if you'd stop fighting me with every breath."
"Don't be absurd. Chicago's not your home."
"No," he said. "You are.”
― Carey Corp, quote from Destined for Doon
“Yoga’s nothing but young girls twistin’ themselves into pretzels and prayin’ to the devil.”
― Carey Corp, quote from Destined for Doon
“You need to let yourself be forgiven.”
― Carey Corp, quote from Destined for Doon
“My philosophy had always been to do the leaving first.”
― Carey Corp, quote from Destined for Doon
“Just once I’d like to save the world at high noon like a cowboy.”
― Carey Corp, quote from Destined for Doon
“Stop torturing yourself and just let go. Surrender all the guilt, the pain, everything you’ve been carrying — leave it all here.”
― Carey Corp, quote from Destined for Doon
“She’s Eponine — but of a platonic sort. You’re my Cossette.”
― Carey Corp, quote from Destined for Doon
“Say, Hilfred.” Mauvin turned to him. “Your father is pretty fair with a blade.”
“My father is excellent,” Reuben corrected. “He’s known to be the best sword in the royal guard next to the lieutenant and the captain.”
“You’re talking to a Pickering, Hilfred,” the prince reminded him. “That’s like speaking to a family of Thoroughbred racehorses and saying your father is the fastest plow horse in the county. Their father”—Alric waved at the brothers—“is the greatest living sword master … anywhere.”
― Michael J. Sullivan, quote from The Rose and the Thorn
“И наистина беше откачил от притеснение, че скъпоценното му единствено дете не е подготвено за опасностите на живота досущ като всеки друг младеж, комуто предстои да стане мъж; откачил от плашещото откритие, че едно малко момченце расте, източва се и засенчва родителите си и няма как да го задържиш, че трябва да му дадеш свободата да се откъсне от теб и да тръгне по света.”
― Philip Roth, quote from Indignation
“Others with names like myths, names like puzzles, names we had never heard before: Virgilio, Balamugunthan, Faheem, Abdulrahman, Aziz, Baako, Dae-Hyun, Ousmane, Kimatsu. When it was hard to say the many strange names, we called them by their countries.
So how on earth do you do this, Sri Lanka?
Mexico, are you coming or what?
Is it really true you sold a kidney to come to America, India?
Guys, just give Tshaka Zulu a break, the guy is old, I'm just saying.
We know you despise this job, Sudan, but deal with it, man.
Come, Ethiopia, move, move, move; Israel, Kazakhstn, Niger, brothers, let's go!”
― NoViolet Bulawayo, quote from We Need New Names
“The Arabians might not suit you; they don’t suit everyone. They are like cats: vain, beautiful, and intelligent. But you deal well enough with Asil, who is also vain, beautiful, and intelligent.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Dead Heat
“It's hardly Mr. Clay's fault that you're an idiot.”
― Jen Turano, quote from After a Fashion
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