“Mind yourself in that guardroom," Gilan told him. Thorn grinned cheerfully. He never had any stomach butterflies before a fight. "I plan to be subtle," he said.
Gilan looked at him, his head tilted curiously. "How's that?"
"Once we go through that door, I'll bash anything that moves. And if they don't move, Stig will bash them."
"You have a strange concept of subtle," Gilan said.
Thorn's grin grew wider, "So I've been told.”
― John Flanagan, quote from Slaves of Socorro
“Hal: "...Then we'll leave in a huff, taking you with us."
"I've always wanted to travel in a huff," Ingvar mused. "It sounds very comfortable. I imagine they're well padded."
"Lined with feathers, in fact," Gilan put in.”
― John Flanagan, quote from Slaves of Socorro
“What now?" Lydia asked. "I assume we have a plan B?"
He shook his head. "We're way past plan B," he told her. "And we've gone past plan C as well. We're up to plan D now."
"And what's plan D?"
He jerked his head down the alley to the corner. "Anyone comes round that corner, we shoot them."
She pursed her lips critically. "Doesn't sound too ingenious," she said.
He shrugged. "I'm not good at ingenious. I'm good at dangerous.”
― John Flanagan, quote from Slaves of Socorro
“Who’s Ikbar?” Ulf said. His brother turned away to hide a smirk. Gilan glanced at Hal curiously, saw he wasn’t planning to answer, so spoke in his place. “He was an Arridan demigod, I believe.” “Oh, don’t,” Hal said quietly. But it was too late. “And what did he do?” “Well, Ulf, I’m not sure that he did too much of anything,” Gilan said. “Just paraded round being a demigod.”
― John Flanagan, quote from Slaves of Socorro
“You think our mam likes you better than me?” challenged whichever one was the other. (Don’t blame me. I’ve lost track too.)”
― John Flanagan, quote from Slaves of Socorro
“I think you're wonderful too, Hal!" Stephan said, in a workmanlike approximation of Ophelia's breathless, admiring tones. The crew laughed even harder.
Lydia snorted through her nose.”
― John Flanagan, quote from Slaves of Socorro
“Oh dear, oh deary me!" Thorn said in a ridiculous falsetto voice. "What are we going to do? It's twelve big hairy guardsmen and Mahmel in a natty green hat."
It was all very well to joke about it, Hal thought, but the situation was serious.”
― John Flanagan, quote from Slaves of Socorro
“Karina and Tho-orn, sitting in a tree-ee. Kay-eye-ess-ess-eye-en-gee.”
― John Flanagan, quote from Slaves of Socorro
“My name is Gilan. The King wants to see you.”
― John Flanagan, quote from Slaves of Socorro
“Just wanted you to know, there’s been no . . . funny business between me and your mam. No . . . hanky-panky, if you know what I mean?” For”
― John Flanagan, quote from Slaves of Socorro
John Flanagan
Born place: in Sydney, Australia
Born date May 22, 1944
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“Enough is as good as a feast.”
― Alice McDermott, quote from Charming Billy
“Why in the world would someone say, 'I can't afford it' or 'I can't do it' to something they want? Why would someone deny themselves the things they want? It makes no logical sense.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, quote from Rich Dad's Retire Young, Retire Rich: How to Get Rich Quickly and Stay Rich Forever!
“La idea de la muerte llega siempre con paso de lobo, con andares de
culebra, como todas las peores imaginaciones. Nunca de repente llegan
las ideas que nos trastornan; lo repentino ahoga unos momentos, pero
nos deja, al marchar, largos años de vida por delante. Los pensamientos
que nos enloquecen con la peor de las locuras, la de la tristeza, siempre
llegan poco a poco y como sin sentir, como sin sentir invade la niebla los
campos, o la tisis los pechos. Avanza, fatal, incansable, pero lenta,
despaciosa, regular como el pulso. Hoy no la notamos; a lo mejor
mañana tampoco, ni pasado mañana, ni en un mes entero. Pero pasa ese
mes y empezamos a sentir amarga la comida, como doloroso el
recordar, ya estamos picados. Al correr de los días y las noches nos
vamos volviendo huraños, solitarios; en nuestra cabeza se cuecen las
ideas, las ideas que han de ocasionar el que nos corten la cabeza donde
se cocieron, quién sabe si para que no siga trabajando tan atrozmente.
Pasamos a lo mejor hasta semanas enteras sin variar; los que nos
rodean se acostumbraron ya a nuestra adustez y ya ni extrañan siquiera
nuestro extraño ser. Pero un día el mal crece, como los árboles, y
engorda, y ya no saludamos a la gente; y vuelven a sentirnos como raros
y como enamorados. Vamos enflaqueciendo, enflaqueciendo, y nuestra
barba hirsuta es cada vez más lacia. Empezamos a sentir el odio que nos
mata; ya no aguantamos el mirar; nos duele la conciencia, pero ¡no
importa!, ¡más vale que duela! Nos escuecen los ojos, que se llenan de
agua venenosa cuando miramos fuerte. El enemigo nota nuestro anhelo,
pero está confiado; el instinto no miente. (...) Cuando huimos como las
corzas, cuando el oído sobresalta nuestros sueños, estamos ya minados
por el mal; ya no hay solución, ya no hay arreglo posible. Empezamos a
caer, vertiginosamente ya, para no volvernos a levantar de vida. Quizás
para levantarnos un poco a última hora, antes de caer de cabeza hasta
el infierno... Mala cosa.”
― Camilo José Cela, quote from The Family of Pascual Duarte
“No matter how often I think I can't stand it anymore, I always do. There is no alternative. I don't fall, I don't foam at the mouth, faint, collapse or die. It's the same for all of us. You can't get out of the inside of your own head. Something keeps you going. Something always does.”
― Janice Galloway, quote from The Trick is to Keep Breathing
“There's a fine line between being practical and being a candyass, which is a word that my father used to describe someone whom he considered to be the opposite of tough. ... Because I'm very afraid of becoming a candyass, I'll sometimes do things that I know to be impractical just so I don't have to worry about being a candyass.”
― quote from American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon
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