“And I can no more stop worrying about you than I can stop myself from breathing.”
― Cayla Kluver, quote from Legacy
“Ah, Galen! Late as always, I see," Steldor said as he took note of his friend's entry into the room.
"I'm never late," Galen returned. "You should know by now that the party doesn't begin until I'm here.”
― Cayla Kluver, quote from Legacy
“At some point the choice you will face is whether to carry out your duties or live your life”
― Cayla Kluver, quote from Legacy
“Congratulations Lord Steldor, Princess Alera, my sympathies.”
― Cayla Kluver, quote from Legacy
“Were he, the great Lord Steldor, another man, I might have spent the afternoon smiling.”
― Cayla Kluver, quote from Legacy
“I think I'm going to vomit.”
― Cayla Kluver, quote from Legacy
“You can hardly expect the rabbit to keep up with the fox.”
― Cayla Kluver, quote from Legacy
“Tadark, this phrase is probably meaningless to you as it is so oft repeated, but do be quiet.”
― Cayla Kluver, quote from Legacy
“He also feels, like most men, that a father should not trust to a daughter's judgement on a decision as important as the selection of her husband.”
― Cayla Kluver, quote from Legacy
“Pero nuestra separación forzosa sólo consiguió hacerme más consciente de que, en muchos sentidos, Narian tenía mi vida en sus manos. [pp. 374]”
― Cayla Kluver, quote from Legacy
“I need you,” I whisper against his lips, loving the way his eyes flash and his face goes soft seconds before he claims my mouth.
And with that kiss, that claiming of my soul, I know without a shadow of a doubt that I’m forever ruined for anyone else.”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Cooper
“reported only seven deaths during surgery.”
― James Dashner, quote from The Maze Runner Files
“This is the way brown people have to fight, my grandfather says. You can’t just put your fist up. You have to insist on something gently. Walk toward a thing slowly. But be ready to die, my grandfather says, for what is right. Be ready to die, my grandfather says, for everything you believe in.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, quote from Brown Girl Dreaming
“They all know it is there, all the people of Omelas. Some of them have come to see it, others are content merely to know it is there. They all know that it has to be there. Some of them understand why, and some do not, but they all understand that their happiness, the beauty of their city, the tenderness of their friendships, the health of their children, the wisdom of their scholars, the skill of their makers, even the abundance of their harvest and the kindly weathers of their skies, depend wholly on this child's abominable misery.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, quote from The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
“I understood that people are trying to transform themselves all the time: the universal urge to be otherwise. So as not to look as they look, sound as they sound, be treated as they are treated, suffer in the ways they suffer, etc., etc., they change hairdos, tailors, spouses, accents, friends, they change their addresses, their noses, their wallpaper, even their forms of government, all to be more like themselves or less like themselves, or more like or less like that exemplary prototype whose image is theirs to emulate or to repudiate obsessively for life.”
― Philip Roth, quote from Operation Shylock: A Confession
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