“Wear pink. It confuses the enemy.”
― Donita K. Paul, quote from DragonFire
“I shall not tell your husband and you shall not tell my wife."
Tell them what?"
That you and I were outwitted by a ropma."
That would be shamful."
Girl, we could never live it down.”
― Donita K. Paul, quote from DragonFire
“Not all tongues that wag cohabit with a brain.”
― Donita K. Paul, quote from DragonFire
“The odd thing, my dear," said her father, "is that once one has ceased trying to protect self, one finds one's self in a very comfortable position."
"Where?" asked Kale
"In Wulder's care.”
― Donita K. Paul, quote from DragonFire
“Time together is so much more pleasant for the time apart.”
― Donita K. Paul, quote from DragonFire
“There is weather and there is climate.
If it rains outside, or if you stab a classmate's shoulder with a compass needle, over and over, until his white cotton school shirt looks like blotting paper; that is weather.
But if you live in a place where is is often likely to rain, or your perception falters and dislocates so that you retreat, suspicious and afraid of those closest to you, that is climate.”
― Nathan Filer, quote from The Shock of the Fall
“لا أستطيع ترك الطغاة يعتقدون بموافقتي واستسلامي ، إني لا أستطيع أن اسمح لهم باستعمال ظهري كي يتعلموا جلد الآخرين”
― Maxim Gorky, quote from Mother
“They say a hundred-and-thirty-pound woman has no chance against an athletic two-hundred-pound man. That's a lie. You just have to make the decision to hurt him and then do it.”
― Ilona Andrews, quote from Burn for Me
“Love. Love wasn’t sweet and light, it was visceral and overpowering. Love wasn’t patient, love wasn’t kind. Love was ferocious, love knew how to play dirty.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from When Will There Be Good News?
“Well, what o you want?" I said. "I am the type of guy who couldn't survive without disfigurement. Life has worked me over. It wasn't just the war, either.... I got a bad wound, you know. But the shots of life..." I gave myself a bang on the breast. "Right here! You know what I mean, King?”
― Saul Bellow, quote from Henderson the Rain King
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