“There is a sign in the heavens
Another light in the darkness
A better time is beginning
There is a fire star coming
I see the mark of the ice bear
In the tears of the dragon
And you'd better start wishing
There is a fire star coming
Stay with me, my love......
....Until the stars have blinked their last
Wherever on this earth you walk
He will arouse, excite, inspire,
My Valentine, my one dark fire.......
”
― Chris d'Lacey, quote from Fire Star
“He tried. He really did. For a good ninety seconds he molded the clay as best he could. His final effort came out resembling a pear.”
― Chris d'Lacey, quote from Fire Star
“You didn’t complain when I came to keep you warm last night, author”
― Chris d'Lacey, quote from Fire Star
“Whoa, the baby Jesus lives in Chamberlain?” “In an igloo next to the inn. Try again.” “Um,”
― Chris d'Lacey, quote from Fire Star
“Thoran, watching him, stretched out his paws and allowed”
― Chris d'Lacey, quote from Fire Star
“was trilling out of his phone again. Another female. Another problem.”
― Chris d'Lacey, quote from Fire Star
“Wait a minute while I think," said Miss Peavey.
There was a pause. Miss Peavey sat with knit brows.
"How would it be..." ventured Mr. Cootes.
"Cheese it!" said Miss Peavey.
Mr. Cootes cheesed it.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, quote from Leave It to Psmith
“indeed it can be argued that the major component in European culture is precisely what made that culture hegemonic both in and outside Europe: the idea of European identity as a superior one in comparison with all the non-European peoples and cultures. There is in addition the hegemony of European ideas about the Orient, themselves reiterating European superiority over Oriental backwardness, usually overriding the possibility that a more independent, or more skeptical, thinker might have had different views on the matter. In a quite constant way, Orientalism depends for its strategy on this flexible positional superiority, which puts the Westerner in a whole series of possible relationships with the Orient without ever losing him the relative upper hand.”
― Edward W. Said, quote from Orientalism
“With more insight into the English character, I poured out a stiff whisky and soda and placed it in front of the gloomy inspector.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Lord Edgware Dies
“Vete al comedor, da una vuelta alrededor de la mesa mirado siempre su centro, y cuando hayas concluido el paseo circular, habrás dado una vuelta alrededor de ti mismo, puesto que la vista habrá recorrido todos los puntos del comedor. Pues bien, el comedor es el Cielo, la mesa es la Tierra y tú eres la Luna.”
― Jules Verne, quote from From the Earth to the Moon
“So aint you think just causen you in this car now means any damn thing. It aint. He pretending it do, he lying and saying it do, but it aint. Pretend that other dame just he friend, so he say, but aint like it true.
Some churchbitch she is too. Leastaways that what Amy telling me. Amy say she met her once and she aint shit.”
― Stacia Kane, quote from City of Ghosts
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