“You can't live by other's expectations of you.”
― Laury Falter, quote from Fallen
“Love can't begin to describe how I feel about you.”
― Laury Falter, quote from Fallen
“a hero was only a hero if the person being saved wasn’t strong enough to save themselves.”
― Laury Falter, quote from Fallen
“When all else fails…everyone is gagging…and the stove is on fire…I read the recipe.”
― Laury Falter, quote from Fallen
“I don’t think any less of you for asking me to come here.” He exuded a tenderness that made his words unquestionably sincere. I gave him an awkward smile, intended to be an unspoken thanks for pacifying my ego. He really could be chivalrous, when he put forth the effort. But then, he dropped his hand and stepped back against the dresser again, adding playfully, “It’s really not your fault. You can’t help yourself when it comes to me.”
― Laury Falter, quote from Fallen
“his typical white apron emblazoned with the words, “When all else fails…everyone is gagging…and the stove is on fire…I read the recipe.”
― Laury Falter, quote from Fallen
“Hmm. If it’s ‘bout classes rememba that ya won’t care in ten years if ya miss a question or two; if it’s ‘bout friends ya got plenty of ‘em in this house; and if it’s ‘bout a boy…give him a shot. Take pity on us wankers.”
― Laury Falter, quote from Fallen
“You can’t live by others’ expectations of you.” “That sounds like a belief developed over time,”
― Laury Falter, quote from Fallen
“Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which we place essentially undifferentiated things, things weaker than our words for them.
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We believe we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.”
― Gene Wolfe, quote from Shadow & Claw
“If life were like a video game, she would have used her power move to whip Jen in the air and knock her against the wall with two strikes of a lacrosse stick. Of course, if life really were like a video game, Val would probably have to do that in a bikini and with giant breasts, each one made of separately animated polygons.”
― Holly Black, quote from Valiant
“At this point, most people would have thrown themselves down on the ground and given up hope. And by most people, I mean me.”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Hammer of Thor
“Since arriving in England, Katherine had come to know a freedom she had never dreamed of in Spain, where young women were kept in seclusion and forced to live almost like cloistered nuns. They wore clothes that camouflaged their bodies and veiled their faces in public. Etiquette at the Spanish court was rigid, and even smiling was frowned upon. But in England, unmarried women enjoyed much more freedom: their gowns were designed to attract, and when they were introduced to gentlemen they kissed them full upon the lips in greeting. They sang and danced when they pleased, went out in public as the fancy took them, and laughed when they felt merry.”
― Alison Weir, quote from The Six Wives of Henry VIII
“[A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, quote from Letters to a Young Poet
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