Quotes from Faerie Wars

“Brimstone: '...I shall smite thee with my fightful blasting wand so that thy teeth shall drop out, thy skin shall wrinkle, thou shalt have boils on thy bottom and be subject to night sweats, ringing in the ears, falling sickness, flaking dandruff, arthritis, lumbago, uncontrollable dribbling, deafness, runny nose, and ingrowing toenails. Amen.”
― Herbie Brennan, quote from Faerie Wars

“He caught me stealing his golden phoenix.'
Tithonus closed his eyes briefly. 'Good grief!' He opened them again. 'I was half hoping it wasn't true. Have you any idea of the implications?'
'He was mistreating it!' Pyrgus protested.
'Of course he was mistreating it. This is Black Hairstreak we're talking about. He mistreats his own mother. I don't suppose you stole her as well?”
― Herbie Brennan, quote from Faerie Wars

“How do you get on with your father ' Beleth asked.
'Very well ' Pyrgus answered loyally although it was far from the truth.
'I ate mine ' Beleth told him. 'He got old and feeble and useless but he wanted to hold on to power. So I took steps. Tasted disgusting - stringy tough smelly ... you know how fathers are - but it's the custom here. You're supposed to absorb the essence that way. Rank superstition of course but well ... tradition.”
― Herbie Brennan, quote from Faerie Wars

“Anybody could have seen you. I was just unlucky.' He realised what he'd said and added hurriedly, 'I mean not unlucky to have seen you that way. I mean you're very pretty, beautiful and all that, no spots or anything...' - Henry”
― Herbie Brennan, quote from Faerie Wars

“Henry went down on one knee. 'Like King Arthur's knights,' Mr. Fogarty had told him, but he didn't feel much like a knight. In fact he felt like a twit.”
― Herbie Brennan, quote from Faerie Wars

“Is he dead? Blue asked, staring down at the prostrate body.
kitterick shook his head.'No,but he will remain in a coma for several hours.And there will be a substantial headache when he wakes up. And tremors.Something of a limp.Blurred vision.Impaired hearing.A few facialtics.Some nausea,loss of appetite, occasional hallucinations,flatulence,a weakness in the back. The nerve damage will repair itself in a few years.Providing he rests of course.”
― Herbie Brennan, quote from Faerie Wars

“Kiedy przywołujesz demona, dajesz mu sposobność wpływania na wydarzenia w twoim świecie. Pomniejsze demony po prostu wyrządzą szkody, ale większe potrafią być subtelniejsze. I groźniejsze.”
― Herbie Brennan, quote from Faerie Wars

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“The stars in their infinite peace seemed to pour their healing light into me. I thought of captives in prison, the sick and the suffering from the beginning of time who had looked to these stars for strength. What was my little sorrow to the centuries of pain which those stars had watched? So near they seemed, so compassionate. My bitter hurt seemed to grow small and drop away. If I must go on alone, I should still have silence and the high stars to walk with me.”
― Anzia Yezierska, quote from Bread Givers

“Those who do not harden their hearts to the pain and need of others, who do not give evil entry to their souls, but suffer under its power and so acknowledge the truth of God—they are the ones who open the windows of the world to let the light in. It is to those who mourn in this sense that great consolation is promised. The second Beatitude is thus intimately connected with the eighth: “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” (Mt 5:10). The mourning of which the Lord speaks is nonconformity with evil; it is a way of resisting models of behavior that the individual is pressured to accept because “everyone does it.” The world cannot tolerate this kind of resistance; it demands conformity. It considers this mourning to be an accusation directed against the numbing of consciences. And so it is. That is why those who mourn suffer persecution for the sake of righteousness. Those who mourn are promised comfort; those who are persecuted are promised the Kingdom of God—the same promise that is made to the poor in spirit.”
― Pope Benedict XVI, quote from Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration

“the police could follow him without dogs or helicopters. As we banged down the stairs, I said, “There’s a trail works south through the mountains to a subdivision above”
― Robert Crais, quote from L.A. Requiem

“Everyone of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false self..We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves. (34) Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify with the first person singular.(7) Our reality, our true self, is hidden in what appears to us to be nothingness....We can rise above this unreality and recover our hidden reality....(281) God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self. (41)”
― Thomas Merton, quote from New Seeds of Contemplation

“صحيح أن الإسلام يشكل أيديولوجية متسقة ومتماسكة شأن الليبرالية والشيوعية، وأن له معاييره الأخلاقية الخاصة به ونظريته المتصلة بالعدالة السياسية و الاجتماعية. كذلك فإن للإسلام جاذبية يمكن أن تكون عالمية، داعيا إليه البشر كافة باعتبارهم بشرا لا مجرد أعضاء في جماعة عرقية، أو قومية معينة. وقد تمكن الإسلام في الواقع من الانتصار على الديمقراطية الليبرالية في أنحاء كثيرة من العالم الإسلامي، وشكل ذلك خطرا كبيرا على الممارسات الليبرالية حتى في الدول التي لم يصل فيها إلى السلطة السياسية بصورة مباشرة. وقد تلا نهاية الحرب الباردة في أوروبا على الفور تحدي العراق للغرب، وهو ما قيل (عن حق أو عن غير حق) إن الإسلام كان أحد عناصر
غير أنه بالرغم من القوة التي أبداها الإسلام في صحوته الحالية، فبالإمكان القول: إن هذا الدين لا يكاد يكون له جاذبية خارج المناطق التي كانت في الأصل إسلامية الحضارة. وقد يبدو أن زمن المزيد من التوسع الحضاري الإسلامي قد ولى. فإن كان بوسع الإسلام أن يكسب من جديد ولاء المرتدين عنه، فهو لن يصادف هوى في قلوب شباب برلين، أو طوكيو، أو موسكو، ورغم أن نحو بليون نسمة يدينون بدين الإسلام (أي خمس تعداد سكان العالم) فليس بوسعهم تحدي الديمقراطية الليبرالية في أرضها على المستوى الفكري. بل إنه قد يبدو أن العالم الإسلامي أشد عرضة للتأثر بالأفكار الليبرالية على المدى الطويل من احتمال أن يحدث العكس، حيث إن مثل هذه الليبرالية قد اجتذبت إلى نفسها أنصارا عديدين وأقوياء لها من بين المسلمين، على مدى القرن ونصف القرن الأخيرين. والواقع أن سبب الصحوة الأصولية الراهنة هو قوة الخطر الملموس من جانب القيم الغربية الليبرالية على المجتمعات الإسلامية التقليدية.”
― Francis Fukuyama, quote from The End of History and the Last Man

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