“There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Naamah's Kiss
“I seek words of such surpassing beauty that they might melt the hardest heart of stone.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Naamah's Kiss
“Always, he whispered. The gods do not always answer, but they are always listening.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Naamah's Kiss
“Without plenty, the wealthy lack compassion for the poor, hoarding without sharing. Without law, the strong bully the weak, stealing by force.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Naamah's Kiss
“Empty yourself of everything,” he said. “Let your mind rest at peace. Ten thousand things rise and fall while the self watches. They grow and flourish and return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Practice your breathing and think upon this, Moirin.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Naamah's Kiss
“What you are witnessing is the face of war a great ruler seldom sees, my lady,” Master Lo Feng said to her. Her veiled face turned his way, listening. “No matter how righteous the cause, no matter who wins, the commonfolk suffer. Without plenty, the wealthy lack compassion for the poor, hoarding without sharing. Without law, the strong bully the weak, stealing by force. People will go hungry. Some will starve. Men and women will be forced to choose between feeding their parents and their children.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Naamah's Kiss
“I bid you to aid one another. Let the wealthy have charity for the poor. Let the strong have mercy on the weak. And I promise, if we are victorious, such a time shall never come again.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Naamah's Kiss
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“Yet he knew things he would have preferred not to know. Things about men and the evil they do. Things so terrible as to make anyone's confidence waver, and contaminate anyone's heart forever. He looked at the people around him, people who lived without that burden of knowledge, and envied them.”
― Donato Carrisi, quote from The Lost Girls of Rome
“I'm really not good with impulse control.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from Blutsschwestern
“I’m plotting my own demise,” she teased, keeping her eyes closed. “Because I know that falling for you will be the death of me.”
― Chanda Hahn, quote from Forever
“El anciano se llama Linh. Es el único que lo sabe, porque el resto de las personas que lo sabían están muertas.”
― Philippe Claudel, quote from La petite fille de Monsieur Linh
“I don't know many rules to live by,' he'd said. 'But here's one. It's simple. Don't put anything unnecessary into yourself. No poisons or chemicals, no fumes or smoke or alcohol, no sharp objects, no inessential needles--drug or tattoo--and...no inessential penises either.'
'Inessential penises?' Karou had repeated, delighted with the phrase in spite of her grief. 'Is there any such thing as an essential one?'
'When an essential one comes along, you'll know,' he'd replied.”
― Laini Taylor, quote from Daughter of Smoke and Bone
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