“Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos. ”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Leviathan
“And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Leviathan
“Deryn felt brilliant, rising through the air at the center off everyone's attention, like an acrobat aloft on a swing. She wanted to make a speech:
Hey, all you sods, I can fly and you can't! A natural airman, in case you haven't noticed. And in conclusion, I'd like to add that I'm a girl and you can all get stuffed!”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Leviathan
“Barking hard work, being a boy.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Leviathan
“Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Leviathan
“The man was allergic to sleep.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Leviathan
“Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Leviathan
“Volger looked out across the glacier, his hands deep in his pockets. "May I be frank?"
Alek laughed. "Feel free to put aside your usual tact."
"I shall," Volger said. "When your father decided to marry Sophie, I was one of those who tried to talk him out of it."
"So I have your dismal powers of
persuasion to thank for my existence."
"You're very welcome.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Leviathan
“Boys had something else...a sort of swagger about them.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Leviathan
“That was the trick- to keep punching, no matter what.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Leviathan
“And what can we conclude from this lesson, Your Highness?"
Alek glared at the man. "We can conclude, Count Volger, that discussing politics while fencing is idiotic.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Leviathan
“Barking machines!" Dylan exclaimed. "Didn't I tell you? I've never seen a beastie that couldn't get up on its own. Well, except a turtle. And one of my auntie's cats."
Alek raised an eyebrow. "And I'm sure your auntie's cat would have survived that aerial bomb."
"You'd be surprised. He's quite fast.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Leviathan
“She was a soldier, not some girl twisting her skirts at a village dance.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Leviathan
“There was a long pause. "Um, I'm afraid I don't know the word in English."
"The word for what?"
"I just said I don't *know* it!”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Leviathan
“Alek coughed politely, "If I promise to avoid funny business, could you perhaps remove this knife from my throat?”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Leviathan
“Deryn put her own arms around herself, but it didn't feel the same.
"Barking spiders," she muttered softly,”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Leviathan
“Do you promise?" He demanded again.
"I can't let you go, Alek." She said softly.
"You...what?”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Leviathan
“Don't. Shoot. The air is full of hydrogen!”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Leviathan
“That was the trick - to keep punching, no matter what.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Leviathan
“My compliments," Alek said slowly and evenly. "Your contempt was most convincing."
"I am your servant.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Leviathan
“And barking famous, these friends are”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Leviathan
“He took his own saber by the blade and handed it to Alek, pommel first, as if offering it to a victor.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Leviathan
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“George didn't say a word. He felt quite trembly. He knew something tremendous had taken place that morning. For a few brief moments he had touched with the very tips of his fingers the edge of a magic world.”
― Roald Dahl, quote from George's Marvellous Medicine
“As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.”
― Bill Watterson, quote from The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes
“I also have the impression that many women have been able, instinctively, to sniff out this loneliness of mine, which I confided to no one, and this in later years was to become one of the causes of my being taken advantage of.”
― Osamu Dazai, quote from No Longer Human
“One must gauge one's trust carefully.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Chosen
“The famous field altar came from the Jewish firm of Moritz Mahler in Vienna, which manufactured all kinds of accessories for mass as well as religious objects like rosaries and images of saints.
The altar was made up of three parts, lberally provided with sham gilt like the whole glory of the Holy Church.
It was not possible without considerable ingenuity to detect what the pictures painted on these three parts actually represented. What was certain was that it was an altar which could have been used equally well by heathens in Zambesi or by the Shamans of the Buriats and Mongols.
Painted in screaming colors it appeared from a distance like a coloured chart intended for colour-blind railway workers. One figure stood out prominently - a naked man with a halo and a body which was turning green, like the parson's nose of a goose which has begun to rot and is already stinking. No one was doing anything to this saint. On the contrary, he had on both sides of him two winged creatures which were supposed to represent angels. But anyone looking at them had the impression that this holy naked man was shrieking with horror at the company around him, for the angels looked like fairy-tale monsters and were a cross between a winged wild cat and the beast of the apocalypse.
Opposite this was a picture which was meant to represent the Holy Trinity. By and large the painter had been unable to ruin the dove. He had painted a kind of bird which could equally well have been a pigeon or a White Wyandotte. God the Father looked like a bandit from the Wild West served up to the public in an American film thriller.
The Son of God on the other hand was a gay young man with a handsome stomach draped in something like bathing drawers. Altogether he looked a sporting type. The cross which he had in his hand he held as elegantly as if it had been a tennis racquet.
Seen from afar however all these details ran into each other and gave the impression of a train going into a station.”
― Jaroslav Hašek, quote from The Good Soldier Švejk
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