“People in love always tried to match the singles together, but what they didn't realize was that some people were meant to be alone. There was nothing wrong with that.”
― S.H. Kolee, quote from Fated
“...I was more than just the sum of my experiences, and I had the ability to become an active participant in life instead of just standing on the sidelines.”
― S.H. Kolee, quote from Fated
“It was worth saving up all my luck until now, because it means I get to spend the rest of my life with you.”
― S.H. Kolee, quote from Fated
“Getting out of bed in the morning was a small triumph, and making it through the day without breaking down was an accomplishment.”
― S.H. Kolee, quote from Fated
“I was messed up when it came to relationships, not happy with what I told myself I wanted, yet unwilling to take the risk for more.”
― S.H. Kolee, quote from Fated
“I’m afraid I’ll never get over him. I’m afraid that I’ll spend the rest of my life wanting someone I can’t have. I have to get over him. I need to get over him.”
― S.H. Kolee, quote from Fated
“In my heart, I knew that only the lucky found that sort of happiness. And I had always run short on luck.”
― S.H. Kolee, quote from Fated
“If there's one thing I was horrible at, it was small talk.”
― S.H. Kolee, quote from Fated
“Photography can be an intimate experience between the photographer and his subject. But there are so many ways to express the connection without a camera in the way.”
― S.H. Kolee, quote from Fated
“Why are men afraid of women?"
If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear," Ged said.
"Yes; but women seem to fear their own strength, to be afraid of themselves."
"Are they ever taught to trust themselves?" Ged asked, and as he spoke Therru came in on her work again. His eyes and Tenar's met.
"No," she said. "Trust is not what we're taught." She watched the child stack the wood in the box. "If power were trust," she said. "I like that word. If it weren't all these arrangements - one above the other - kings and masters and mages and owners - It all seems so unnecessary. Real power, real freedom, would lie in trust, not force."
"As children trust their parents," he said.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, quote from Tehanu
“A courteous war mage. The world really was coming to an end.
And then Pritkin ran back around the corner followed by half a dozen groggy people. He glanced at the cells that still had to be emptied. “You aren’t done yet?” he demanded.
The world righted itself.”
― Karen Chance, quote from Curse the Dawn
“He watched Attolia out of the corner of his eye. She was still cool, like a breath of winter in the warm evening air, but in the last few days he had begun to sense a subtle humor in her chilly words. When Gen had complained earlier that evening that Petrus, the palace physician, should stop fussing over him like a worried old woman, Attolia had asked, archly,"And me as well?"
"When you stop fussing," Gen had said, slipping to his knees beside her couch, "I will sleep with two knives under my pillow."
Allolia had looked down at him and said sharply, "Don't be ridiculous."
Only when Eugenides laughed had Sounis realized her implication: If she ever turned against Eugenides, a second knife wouldn't save him. He almost swallowed the olive in his mouth unchewed.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, quote from A Conspiracy of Kings
“Usually, I’m remarkably goodnatured. Try me on any day that doesn’t end in y.”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from City of Bones / City of Ashes / City of Glass / City of Fallen Angels / City of Lost Souls
“Nick's eyes were like ice. "Maybe we should talk about what happened in third period today. I didn't even ask if you were okay."
What a bastard. "Shut up."
"What happened?" said Michael
"Nothing," said Chris. He glared at Nick across the table
Good little brother.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, quote from Spark
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