“It isn't always easy between us. I admit that. But it's right between us, always.”
― Caragh M. O'Brien, quote from Prized
“She’d heard of love triangles before, but a love square?”
― Caragh M. O'Brien, quote from Prized
“You look like a decent young man."
Leon didn't smile. "I'm not.”
― Caragh M. O'Brien, quote from Prized
“There"s nothing left between us at all, is there?” she asked.
For a long moment he said nothing, and the pebbles made a clicking noise in his fingers.
Then, as if it gave him no pleasure at all, he replied.
“Whose fault is that?”
― Caragh M. O'Brien, quote from Prized
“What boy could resist you?"
"Will's hardly a boy."
"Don't give me that. He's a boy playing a game," Norris said. "The oldest game there is.”
― Caragh M. O'Brien, quote from Prized
“And for once, she was happy. Very.”
― Caragh M. O'Brien, quote from Prized
“Every tiny, happy thing makes me want to share it with you," he went on, leaning forward. "I thought I would get over this, but I can't, and I'm done trying. I understand you like no one else here ever can."
-Leon Grey”
― Caragh M. O'Brien, quote from Prized
“It isn't always easy between us. I admit that. But it's still right between us, always.”
― Caragh M. O'Brien, quote from Prized
“I can be loyal, Leon. I know what that is."
He laughed. "Finally, the girl gives me a crumb”
― Caragh M. O'Brien, quote from Prized
“You make me sound like some kind of moral freak."
The Matrarc's eyebrows lifted slightly. "Isn't that what you are?”
― Caragh M. O'Brien, quote from Prized
“It isn't always easy between us, I admit that. But it's right between us, always."
-Leon Grey”
― Caragh M. O'Brien, quote from Prized
“It isn’t always easy between us. I admit that. But it’s right between us, always.”
― Caragh M. O'Brien, quote from Prized
“—Yo no quiero a nadie, prefiero mis libros.”
― Caragh M. O'Brien, quote from Prized
“I can’t take this place anymore. It’s just not right. Any of it.” “Now you see.” She”
― Caragh M. O'Brien, quote from Prized
“My waiter friend, Laurent, working at the Brasserie Champs du Mars near the Eiffel Tower, one night while serving me Une Grande Beer, explained his life. “I work from ten to twelve hours, sometimes fourteen,” he says, “and then at midnight I go dancing, dancing, dancing until four or five in the morning and go to bed and sleep until ten and then up, up and to work by eleven and another ten or twelve or sometimes fifteen hours of work.” “How can you do that?” I ask. “Easily,” he says. “To be asleep is to be dead. It is like death. So we dance, we dance so as not to be dead. We do not want that.” “How old are you?” I ask, at last. “Twenty-three,” he says. “Ah,” I say and take his elbow gently. “Ah. Twenty-three, is it?” “Twenty-three,” he says, smiling. “And you?” “Seventy-six,” I say. “And I do not want to be dead, either. But I am not twenty-three. How can I answer? What do I do?” “Yes,” says Laurent, still smiling and innocent, “what do you do at three in the morning?” “Write,” I say, at last. “Write!” Laurent says, astonished. “Write?” “So as not to be dead,” I say. “Like you.” “Me?” “Yes,” I say, smiling now, myself. “At three in the morning, I write, I write, I write!”
― Ray Bradbury, quote from The Illustrated Man
“Why are we up here?” Mark asked. Alec pointed a finger at him. “Because it’s what you do when someone comes to your house and attacks your people. You fight back. I’m not going to let these bloodsuckers get away with that crap.”
― James Dashner, quote from The Kill Order
“Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions. Indeed, it was doubted if the problem ever would be solved.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, quote from Rendezvous with Rama
“Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Identical
“I have of sorrow so great wound That joy get I never none, Now that I see my lady bright, That I have loved with all my might, Is from me dead, and is agone. Alas, Death, what aileth thee, That thou should’st not have taken me, When thou took my lady sweet, That was so fair, so fresh, so free, So good, that men may well say Of all goodness she had no meet! Right on this same, as I have said Was wholly all my love laid For certes she was, that sweet wife, My suffisaunce, my lust, my life, Mine hap, mine health and all my bless, My world’s welfare and my goddess, And I wholly hers, and everydel.”
― Anya Seton, quote from Katherine
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