“Did you recently turn into a jerk or have you been one since birth?”
― Priya Ardis, quote from My Boyfriend Merlin
“Do I look like I want to be involved in your teen love saga? Ask someone who cares.”
― Priya Ardis, quote from My Boyfriend Merlin
“Why did you wear heels? How are you supposed to fight a gargoyle in what you're wearing?”
― Priya Ardis, quote from My Boyfriend Merlin
“He’s so powerful. Who knows maybe he’s advanced past eating”
― Priya Ardis, quote from My Boyfriend Merlin
“My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac--you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan.”
― Priya Ardis, quote from My Boyfriend Merlin
“Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long pointed tower with beautiful rose and ivory stained glass windows. Pink-petal flowers and deep green ivy climbed the stones from the ground to it’s roof. A large fountain stood in the middle of the courtyard with water falling from several lion’s heads. Between the misty air and rolling slope of the earth, the grounds reminded me of a long lost fairy tale.”
― Priya Ardis, quote from My Boyfriend Merlin
“All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.”
― Aesop, quote from Aesop's Fables
“Most of us didn’t feel too enthusiastic about making a collapsar jump, either. We’d been assured that we wouldn’t even feel it happen, just free fall all the way. I wasn’t convinced. As a physics student, I’d had the usual courses in general relativity and theories of gravitation. We only had a little direct data at that time — Stargate was discovered when I was in grade school — but the mathematical model seemed clear enough. The collapsar Stargate was a perfect sphere about three kilometers in radius. It was suspended forever in a state of gravitational collapse that should have meant its surface was dropping toward its center at nearly the speed of light. Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there … the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted. At any rate, there would be a theoretical point in space-time when one end of our ship was just above the surface of the collapsar, and the other end was a kilometer away (in our frame of reference). In any sane universe, this would set up tidal stresses and tear the ship apart, and we would be just another million kilograms of degenerate matter on the theoretical surface, rushing headlong to nowhere for the rest of eternity or dropping to the center in the next trillionth of a second. You pays your money and you takes your frame of reference. But they were right. We blasted away from Stargate 1, made a few course corrections and then just dropped, for about an hour.”
― Joe Haldeman, quote from The Forever War
“crossroads about the same time tomorrow. Ashton spent a few moments chattering about her excuse for being away from Mont Royal; it also involved staying with a friend, a nonexistent one. Madeline heard Ashton’s voice, but few of the words registered. The three women crowded into the chaise, Ashton in the middle. It was evident to Madeline that Orry’s sister didn’t like squeezing against a Negress, but she’d just have to put up with it.”
― John Jakes, quote from North and South
“The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point.”
― Nick Hornby, quote from About a Boy
“Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance”
― Jonathan Franzen, quote from Freedom
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