“She sighed. Loudly. "Physical appearance is not what is important."
Yeah right. Tell that to any girl who hasn't bothered to put on a presentable shirt or fix her hair because she's only running into the grocery store to get a quart of milk for her grandmother, and who does she see tending the 7-ITEMS-OR-LESS cash register but the guy of her dreams, except she can't even say hi—much less try to develop a meaningful relationship—since she looks like the poster child for the terminally geeky.”
― Vivian Vande Velde, quote from Heir Apparent
“They'd poisoned me, dammit. Probably to trade my dead body to the barbarians for Wulfgar's safe return. Or maybe just for the fun of it.”
― Vivian Vande Velde, quote from Heir Apparent
“if Saint Bruce doesn't like your poem, he chops your head off.”
― Vivian Vande Velde, quote from Heir Apparent
“There, close enough to spit on--if I'd been a barbarian and inclined to spit--was the dragon.”
― Vivian Vande Velde, quote from Heir Apparent
“Giannine--What are they going to do: smack me on the head with a pamplet?”
― Vivian Vande Velde, quote from Heir Apparent
“They'd poisoned me, dammit. Probably to trade my dead body to the barbarians for Wulfgar's safe return. Or maybe just for the fun of it.”
― Vivian Vande Velde, quote from Heir Apparent
Vivian Vande Velde
Born place: in New York City, New York, The United States
Born date June 18, 1951
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“That dark, dingy, cobwebbed basement had taken all my life from me. That place was where I gave myself up, destroyed my own will for him, and now it was gone. My will was dead, so I might as well be dead.”
― Margaux Fragoso, quote from Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir
“Blood—” I rasped. “The earth cannot hold all the blood that’s shed on it. And so the stream flows below. We have passed through it now; soon it will be gone from you.”
― Ellen Kushner, quote from Thomas the Rhymer
“Worrying about offending people drags us back to the lowest common denominator
Our enemies are not the digital bits that dance across our screens but the neural impulses that animate our lizard brains”
― Brooke Gladstone, quote from The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media
“Finishing is what you have to do. If you don't finish, nothing is worth a damn”
― Ernest Hemingway, quote from Green Hills of Africa
“37“Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.”
― quote from Quest Study Bible: NIV
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