“In fact, after that ride across Amaya, he still had blisters in all kinds of places where blisters shouldn’t be.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, quote from Hunted
“The main lesson Rollan had learned in training was that Meilin was dangerous with a handkerchief.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, quote from Hunted
“I’m less a member of the Greencloaks and more a member of Let’s-Save-Erdas.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, quote from Hunted
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“Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels’ hierarchies? and even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying. And”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, quote from The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
“Shandy looked ahead. Blackbeard, apparently willing to get the explanation later, had picked up his oars and was rowing again.
'May I presume to suggest,' yelled Shandy giddily to Davies,
'that we preoceed the hell out of here with all due haste.'
Davies pushed a stray lock of hair back from his forehead and sat down on the rower's thwart. 'My dear fellow consider it done.”
― Tim Powers, quote from On Stranger Tides
“Maybe it was I who needed to learn how to be quiet instead of cluttering the moment with too many words.”
― Alice Steinbach, quote from Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman
“I stood there with the rifle in my hands, that I first grasped the hallowness,
the futility of the white man with his gun, standing in front of the unarmed native crowd --- seemingly the leading actor of the piece ;
but in reality I was only an absurd puppet pushed to and fro by the will of those yellow faces behind.
I perceived in this moment that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.
He becomes a sort of hollow, posing dummy, the conventionalized figure of sahib.
For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the "natives", and so in every crises he has got to do what the "natives" expect of him.”
― George Orwell, quote from A Collection of Essays
“Now these delightful infants are born haphazardly of any mating, any parents, treated well or ill as chance dictates, dying as easily as they are born, and dying anyway so soon after they are born - and yet in each child, every one, has all the potentiality, has it still, and completely, to leap from his low half-animal state to true humanity. Each one of them with this potential, and yet so few can be reached, to make the leap.”
― Doris Lessing, quote from Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta
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