“She read books of poetry, though they had lately begun to stoke her fury. It was all very well for these poets, who wandered off to have adventures and then could string them to words, to music. Anything she might write would be formless, a creature of rage and stormcloud. No music there.”
― Ilana C. Myer, quote from Last Song Before Night
“A surface, she reflected, exists for so many reasons, concealment only one. For it may also serve to protect, from others and from oneself. And perhaps, in an unexpected twist, to protect others from oneself.”
― Ilana C. Myer, quote from Last Song Before Night
“It would occur to her later that sympathy is disarming even without surprise, but unexpected sympathy leaves no defense.”
― Ilana C. Myer, quote from Last Song Before Night
“I will ride horses like wind I will warm my hands at fires I will savor darkened wines I will not think of the road’s end.”
― Ilana C. Myer, quote from Last Song Before Night
“She lit a candle and set it down at the altar amid a sea of tiny flames. Each of them the same, as if all the dreams and desires of people were indistinguishable from one another. The prayer of a female poet, perhaps the only one in Eivar, no different from a mother’s prayer for her sickening infant or a farmer’s prayer for a good harvest.”
― Ilana C. Myer, quote from Last Song Before Night
“Do I have your leave to keep on clinging to a dream of you?”
― Ilana C. Myer, quote from Last Song Before Night
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“Oh, Myr," he chokes out. "I hate having to ask this of you..."
He glances towards the car again, and I crouch down in the shadows, hoping it's too dark for him to see whether the window is open or closed. The woman pats his arm, cradling her hand against his elbow.
"You know I'd do anything for you and Hil," she says. I like her voice. It's throaty and rich.
"You'd do anything?" my father repeats numbly. "Even now? After -?"
"Even now," the woman says firmly.”
― Margaret Peterson Haddix, quote from Double Identity
“لخص روبرت بير (وهو مسئول ادارة العمليات فى السى آى ايه لمدة عشرين عام ومتخصص فى شئون الشرق الاوسك )الامر بقوله " فى بداية سبعينات القرن العشرين حين بدأ تدفق اموال البترول بدأ اصحاب المشروعات اللبنانيون بتهريب العاهرات للمملكة من أجل الامراء ...ولان افراد الاسرة المالكة لا يعرفون كيف يرصدون أرقام الوارد والمنصرف من حساباتهم البنكية فقد أدى ذلك الى ثراء اللبنانيين ثراءا فاحشا”
― John Perkins, quote from Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
“when you enter another’s reality, you observe her rules. Then”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon
“I could run farther than a hare! I could fight the fiercest fox that ever lived...I could climb the highest mountain faster than an eagle could fly.”
― Erin Hunter, quote from Outcast
“Truth is a powerful weapon ... We must be careful how we use it." (Quote by Spottedleaf, page 5)”
― Erin Hunter, quote from Eclipse
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