“I would die for my country. But I’d rather kill for it. Ready your troops. We march!”
― Brian McClellan, quote from The Autumn Republic
“I’ve met dozens of officers who think their immaculate mustache can move the world.”
― Brian McClellan, quote from The Autumn Republic
“And there, among the ruined splendor of Skyline Palace, Adamat saw a god weep for the hero of Adro.”
― Brian McClellan, quote from The Autumn Republic
“Not knowing one’s weaknesses gets people killed.”
― Brian McClellan, quote from The Autumn Republic
“After the adrenaline had worn off and medals had been awarded and the glory meted out, only the suffering remained after a battle.”
― Brian McClellan, quote from The Autumn Republic
“There are always two sides to everything he says and does, just as there are two sides to Brude himself.”
― Brian McClellan, quote from The Autumn Republic
“the ceiling was a mural showing some ancient hero making a deal with a two-faced celestial being.”
― Brian McClellan, quote from The Autumn Republic
“Always ask why. It’s not enough to know the what of something.”
― Brian McClellan, quote from The Autumn Republic
Brian McClellan
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“Daja: "He and Rosethorn work together? They hate each other."
Lark: "I didn't say they liked it.
- Daja and Lark referring to Rosethorn and Crane's cooperation on finding the cures for new diseases”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from Briar's Book
“All these nice clothes, all these jokes and drinks and food, what good does it do? Tomorrow, folk will be poor and starving and dying with a solder's pike in them, and these people will have another celebration, more nice clothes, more jokes, more gems. The suffering is forgotten or ignored - why sorrow? The war victims aren't our people. And then the wheel turns and suddenly they are our people.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from The Will of the Empress
“What's that darkness over there?" Leven asked.
"It's not good." Clover said.
"Then what is it?"
'Bad," Clover suggested, sounding as though he wasn't all that impressed with Leven's level of knowledge.
"I understand opposites," Leven said, frustrated.”
― Obert Skye, quote from Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret
“Somehow, what they'd had was already over, and she hadn't even been aware of the end. This happened with roses: it was possible to take them for granted all summer as they wound along fences and gates, and then in September, when they faded, how beautiful they'd once been suddenly took hold. That was when people began to yearn for them, and all winter long they'd watch the bare branches for buds, vowing that this time they'd be grateful for all that they had.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from Second Nature
“We are laying the foundation for some new, monstrous civilization. Only now do I realize what price was paid for building the ancient civilizations. The Egyptian pyramids, the temples and Greek statues—what a hideous crime they were! How much blood must have poured on to the Roman roads, the bulwarks, and the city walls. Antiquity—the tremendous concentration camp where the slave was branded on the forehead by his master, and crucified for trying to escape! Antiquity—the conspiracy of the free men against the slaves!
.... If the Germans win the war, what will the world know about us? They will erect huge buildings, highways, factories, soaring monuments. Our hands will be placed under every brick, and our backs will carry the steel rails and the slabs of concrete. They will kill off our families, our sick, our aged. They will murder our children.
And we shall be forgotten, drowned out by the voices of the poets, the jurists, the philosophers, the priests. They will produce their own beauty, virtue, and truth. They will produce religion.”
― Tadeusz Borowski, quote from This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Henry V
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Esperanza Rising
Jesus the Christ
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