“People who care about each other don’t hurt each other or make each other feel small.”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Island of Fire
“And so it was that in the midst of chaos and color and light, in the glorious rebirth of a magical world, there remained two small vessels dark and drained. And those vessels were the heart and the soul of a brokenhearted young mage, sobbing alone in the sand.”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Island of Fire
“-I'm not creative like you.-
-Of course you are!-
-I don't sing or draw or act or play an instrument. I can't make things.-
-That's not what 'creative' means, you know. Creativity is in everything.-”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Island of Fire
“On the cool stone floor of their prison, Samheed and Lani huddled together to try to sleep.”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Island of Fire
“Aaron looked at Alex as they reached the bottom of the steps. "What? What is that? Jerkface? Is that good?"
Alex snorted. "Yeah, Aaron. It's really good. I think it means she likes you.”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Island of Fire
“Maybe you could keep him away from the breakables, eh?” “Maybe I could let him crrrush you into tiny bits,” Simber”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Island of Fire
“People who care about each other don't hurt each other or make each other feel small. Period. End of sentence. It was obvious that Liam's problem was much bigger than just feeling like he had to obey...”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Island of Fire
“Hard stuff forces you to grow up fast...”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Island of Fire
“I’m not stealing your people, I’m rescuing mine,”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Island of Fire
“Shred my beard and call me Ishmael!” the captain shouted. He”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Island of Fire
“thin, whittled stick from his pocket and began to clean his teeth. “You knew”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Island of Fire
“There was no time to look back. Only to move forward, toward the dots on the horizon, and steer for them.”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Island of Fire
“but there was no time to marvel at his own awesomeness.”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Island of Fire
“I thought of a line from the Dalai Lama’s book A Profound Mind: “‘We should work toward cherishing the welfare of others to the point where we are unable to bear the sight of their misery.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from The Good Luck of Right Now
“I couldn't help thinkin' if she was as far out o' town as she was out o' tune, she wouldn't get back in a day.”
― Sarah Orne Jewett, quote from The Country of the Pointed Firs
“There are no truths, only stories.”
― quote from Stray
“The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing. It is like saying that because a man can only walk about on two legs, therefore he never walks about except to buy shoes and stockings.”
― G.K. Chesterton, quote from The Everlasting Man
“the biggest damage to the Baghdad Zoo had not been done in battle, fierce as it had been. It was the looters. They had killed or kidnapped anything edible and ransacked everything else. Even the lamp poles had been unbolted, tipped over, and their copper wiring wrenched out like multicolored spaghetti. As we drove past, we could see groups of looters still at it, scavenging like colonies of manic ants.”
― Lawrence Anthony, quote from Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
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