“Love doesna always mean burning flashes o' passion. Sometimes, it's jus' the warmth o' yer hearts as they beat yer day together." ~Old Woman Nora to her three wee granddaughters on a cold winter's night.”
― Karen Hawkins, quote from Sleepless in Scotland
“I've never found it helpful to treat fate with a gentle hand. Everytime I've stroked, hopin' fer a favor, she's slapped me hand and laughed at me. If ye want something, take fate by the throat and shake it out o' her.”
― Karen Hawkins, quote from Sleepless in Scotland
“Tis a sad day when ye ha' t' pinch yerself t' see if ye're awake or in th' midst o' a night terror. 'Tis a really sad day when ye have t' pinch yerself twice."
Old woman Nora to her three wee granddaughters on a cold winter's night”
― Karen Hawkins, quote from Sleepless in Scotland
“Perhaps the truth was there was no perfect marriage, just some really good ones.”
― Karen Hawkins, quote from Sleepless in Scotland
“But what if we find we don't suit?"
"Then ye'll do as the rest o' us and work at suiting.”
― Karen Hawkins, quote from Sleepless in Scotland
“Fighting lets ye both say wha' needs to be said. Just be sure you fight clean, and dinna bring up old hurts or blame one another.”
― Karen Hawkins, quote from Sleepless in Scotland
“So all we know about Hugh MacLean is that his financial situation is unclear, he has an unknown number of illegitimate children, and the family curse is true. I've caught quiet a prize!”
― Karen Hawkins, quote from Sleepless in Scotland
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“Sí, claro. Algún día saldrás citada en los calendarios de todo el mundo —dije—. «Los corazones no se pueden partir de ningún modo porque son de mazapán». Brillante metáfora de la eminente Leslie Hay.”
― Kerstin Gier, quote from Emerald Green
“I'm like that," she said. "Wild mood swings. It makes me more interesting.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from The Rithmatist
“Don't lock yourself away from those who care about you because you think you'll hurt them or they'll hurt you. What point is there in being human if you don't let yourself feel anything?”
― Sabaa Tahir, quote from A Torch Against the Night
“With a lightness of touch that is almost subliminal, this verse has encouraged us to count Valhalla’s fighters, thus momentarily obliging us to focus our attention on their total number (540 × 800 = 432,000). This total, as we shall see in Chapter Thirty-one is mathematically linked to the phenomenon of precession. It is, unlikely to have found its way into Norse mythology by accident, especially in a context that has previously specified a ‘derangement of the heavens’ severe enough to have caused the stars to come adrift from”
― Graham Hancock, quote from Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization
“Dear sir: twelve hours is as twelve years to me. I imagine you in your home, smiling, thinking of me. That I am your heart's secret fills me with song. I wish I could sing of you here in my cage. You are my heart's hidden poem. I reread you, memorize you, every moment we're apart.”
― Laura Whitcomb, quote from A Certain Slant of Light
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