“Sometimes I hated it when I was right, but I always hated it when someone else was. Especially when their being right made me wrong. I’m irrational that way. It’s something I’m working on.”
― Lisa Shearin, quote from Magic Lost, Trouble Found
“Tam considers me a challenge. I consider Tam a work in progress. I also think there's a gentleman lurking under that calculating exterior. Tam thinks 'gentleman' is a dirty word. I talk dirty to Tam every chance I get.”
― Lisa Shearin, quote from Magic Lost, Trouble Found
“The Guardian's eyes widened with amazement, and he tightened his grip on me. He had my arms, so the action I was forced to take was entirely his fault. It was as direct as my previous action, but not nearly as polite.
In the next instant, the Guardian was on his knees trying to remember how to breath.”
― Lisa Shearin, quote from Magic Lost, Trouble Found
“Mychael Eiliesor. Guardian paladin, sacred protector, master spellsinger, fashion consultant.”
― Lisa Shearin, quote from Magic Lost, Trouble Found
“You know it’s going to be a bad day when you can’t get privacy inside your own head.”
― Lisa Shearin, quote from Magic Lost, Trouble Found
“I wouldn't be comfortable, but at least I'd have marginal protection against pointy steel objects that went stab in the night.”
― Lisa Shearin, quote from Magic Lost, Trouble Found
“I decide that we could always indulge ourselves later. First, I had a soul-eating stone of power to poke with a stick.”
― Lisa Shearin, quote from Magic Lost, Trouble Found
“When it came to maintaining a reputation, facts were fleeting but you could ride a rumor for years.”
― Lisa Shearin, quote from Magic Lost, Trouble Found
“Sir, come quick. They've found a body in the canal."
I blew out my breath. Saved by the corpse.
...The corpse in question was Nigel Nicabar.
The watchers had collected the bodies found in Nigel's house, garden, and canal, and put them in the greenhouse located at the back of the garden. The necromancer's talents weren't with living things, so the greenhouse's tables were pretty much empty - at least of plants. Dead goblins lay under sheets and tarps. I couldn't help feeling that Nigel would have approved. What he wouldn't have approved of was being included among them. Nigel wouldn't have been caught dead surrounded by goblins, yet that's exactly how and where he was. I don't think he would have appreciated the irony.”
― Lisa Shearin, quote from Magic Lost, Trouble Found
“You'll never find a worse critic than the one inside your own skin, or a more difficult one to silence," I told Pieras, by means of explanation. "The best you can hope for is to teach it some manners.”
― Lisa Shearin, quote from Magic Lost, Trouble Found
“Bodyguard work came easily to hobgoblins. When you’re huge, furry, fanged, and yellow-eyed, you don’t need much else as a deterrent.”
― Lisa Shearin, quote from Magic Lost, Trouble Found
“[...]Let me ask around. In the meantime, you need to keep that trinket out of sight, and you need to be careful.”
“I’m always careful.”
Garadin gave me the look. You know the one.
“Whenever I can,” I added.”
― Lisa Shearin, quote from Magic Lost, Trouble Found
“You’ll never find a worse critic than the one inside your own skin, or a more difficult one to silence,” I told Piaras, by means of explanation. “The best you can hope for is to teach it some manners.”
― Lisa Shearin, quote from Magic Lost, Trouble Found
“guess all that sinuous grace and exotic beauty can”
― Lisa Shearin, quote from Magic Lost, Trouble Found
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“(Ugh. Don’t even get me started. It’s like teachers think we have nothing better to do with our lives than to come home and do more schoolwork.) [SirLeo] (It’s coz they’re old and have no lives and want to punish those who do.)”
― Mari Mancusi, quote from Gamer Girl
“I lifted the remote control, pushed the Play button, and started the video. I guess, in that moment, I also started my new life as Cameron-the-girl-with-no-parents. Ruth was sort of right, I would learn: A relationship with a higher power is often best practiced alone. For me it was practiced in hour-and-half or two-hour increments, and paused when necessary. I don't think it's overstating it to say that my religion of choice became VHS rentals, and that its messages came in Technicolor and musical montages and fades and jump cuts and silver-screen legends and B-movie nobodies and villains to root for and good guys to hate. But Ruth was wrong, too. There was more than just one other world beyond ours; there were hundreds and hundreds of them, and at 99 cents apiece I could rent them all.”
― Emily M. Danforth, quote from The Miseducation of Cameron Post
“there are two distinct sides to a writer of fiction. First, there is the side he displays to the public, that of an ordinary person like anyone else, a person who does ordinary things and speaks an ordinary language. Second, there is the secret side, which comes out in him only after he has closed the door of his workroom and is completely alone. It is then that he slips into another world altogether, a world where his imagination takes over and he finds himself actually living in the places he is writing about at that moment.”
― Roald Dahl, quote from The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More
“I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Maya's Notebook
“Regard [a friend] as loyal, and you will make him loyal.”
― Seneca, quote from Letters from a Stoic (a selection)
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