Cecilia Dart-Thornton · 588 pages
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“Down the violet wind slid syrinx melodies, wild as foxes, mad as love, strange as wakening.”
― Cecilia Dart-Thornton, quote from The Battle of Evernight
“The raven spread out its glossy wings and departed like hope.”
― Cecilia Dart-Thornton, quote from The Battle of Evernight
“She had seen what it cost him and her heart quickened with compassion. For that alone, she might have loved him almost.”
― Cecilia Dart-Thornton, quote from The Battle of Evernight
“Mindful of not thanking their benefactors, in case, like wights, they took offense, she added, "Your kindness is gratefully acknowledged. May your trees be forever fruitful.”
― Cecilia Dart-Thornton, quote from The Battle of Evernight
“Careful, even now, not to thank the wights, she added, "You have all been most kind.”
― Cecilia Dart-Thornton, quote from The Battle of Evernight
“Should they be thanked or does thanks drive them away?
"You honor us," she stammered. "We request your help.”
― Cecilia Dart-Thornton, quote from The Battle of Evernight
“Riding upon the back of a waterhorse - what mortal had ever stayed in such a seat for so long? On a horse made of cold currents and liquid convergences, jests and trickery - pressed against a hide like the burnished sea of midnight, thing look different to the rider.”
― Cecilia Dart-Thornton, quote from The Battle of Evernight
“She rolled her eyes. " I was talking about your temperature, jerk. But just to be clear, I never said you weren't good-looking. If you remember, I said you made me nervous."
"Right. So, you think I'm good-looking?"
She swatted me over the head with her fedora, then went back to the cash register, saying, "You're really annoying. If you're sisters are pains in the ass, I'm thinking they learned it from you.”
― Anne Greenwood Brown, quote from Lies Beneath
“The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages" Pt.1, 41”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, quote from Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
“emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood”
― Daniel Goleman, quote from Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
“Moral matrices bind people together and blind them to the coherence, or even existence, of other matrices. This makes it very difficult for people to consider the possibility that there might really be more than one form of moral truth, or more than one valid framework for judging people or running a society.”
― Jonathan Haidt, quote from The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
“Basketball Rule #4
If you miss
enough of life's
free throws
you will pay
in the end.”
― Kwame Alexander, quote from The Crossover
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