“Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Mercy
“It is not wise to meddle with D'Angelines in matters of love.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Mercy
“Sidonie, I know you don't remember it, but you once promised to trust me beyond all reason. And I swear to you that all that I am, all that I possess, including this gem-stone, is yours. I need you. I can't do this alone. Forget your memories. Look into your heart. And if you can find somewhere there, some lingering spark of trust that owes naught to reason, I beg you to speak the word written here.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Mercy
“I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was the shadow of sorrow, yes. It would always be there. But that was the nature of life. The bright mirror and the dark, reflecting one another. And today there was so much brightness.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Mercy
“É mais duro ver outro sofrer do que suportarmos nós o sofrimento.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Mercy
“I aspire to wisdom, my lady. I do not believe I possess it, not yet. But my lord Ptolemy Solon holds that happiness is the highest form of wisdom.” I made a broad gesture. “Today the sun is shining and we are engaged in a pleasant pursuit in the company of friends. If that is wisdom, let us be content.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Mercy
Jacqueline Carey
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“The biologist J.B.S. Haldane once said that there are two reasons why humans do not turn into angels: moral imperfection and a body plan that cannot accommodate both arms and wings.”
― Steven Pinker, quote from The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
“I don’t mind hot and spicy. Actually find that appealing in a girl … And chicken wings.”
Rylann turned her head and stared at him. “Did you really just compare me to chicken wings?”
“You say that like it’s a bad thing. Chicken wings are the bomb.”
― Julie James, quote from About That Night
“For Arthur, words gathered in waterfall thoughts that spilled off the page into the pools of imaginaton collecting in his head.”
― Christopher Scotton, quote from The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
“Unlike any other creature on this planet, human beings can learn and understand without having experienced.”
― J.K. Rowling, quote from Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
“Grace.” His head dipped toward mine. “Tell me to leave.”
“No,” I whispered back, relaxing into the wall, and he melted into me with a groan. “I want you to stay.”
He looked into my eyes as if searching for the answer to something. “If I stay I’m going to fuck you.”
I trembled in reaction to his bluntness and licked my lips before I moved my feet, widening my legs so he could fit just right between them. His eyes flared at the movement, and I reached up so our lips brushed as I whispered. “I’m counting on it.”
― Samantha Young, quote from Moonlight on Nightingale Way
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