“and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from The Black Arrow
“I know; I don't care to die either. But when whining mendeth nothing, wherefore whine?”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from The Black Arrow
“A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from The Black Arrow
“I had four blak arrows under my belt,
Four for the greefs that I have felt,
Four for the number of ill menne
That have oppressid me now and then.
One is gone; one is wele sped;
Old Apulyaird is dead.
One is for Maister Bennet Hatch,
That burned Grimstone, walls and thatch.
One for Sir Oliver Oates,
That cut Sir Harry Shelton’s throat.
Sir Daniel, ye shull have the fourt;
We shall think it fair sport.
Ye shull each have your own part,
A blak arrow in each blak heart.
Get ye to your knees for to pray;
Ye are ded theeves, by yea and nay!
JON AMEND-ALL
Of the Green Wood,
And his jolly fellaweship”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from The Black Arrow
“If the barons live at war, ploughfolk must eat roots.” “Nay,”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from The Black Arrow
“and for the first time began to understand the desperate game that we play in life; and how a thing once done is not to be changed or remedied, by any penitence. But”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from The Black Arrow
“Well! marriage is like death, it comes to all.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from The Black Arrow
“Noh, tead, abielu on nagu surm, see jõuab kord kõigile kätte," ütles Dick alistuvalt.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from The Black Arrow
“Sir Oliver—that knows more of law than honesty—I”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from The Black Arrow
Robert Louis Stevenson
Born place: in Edinburgh, Scotland
Born date November 13, 1850
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“this I know of life’s difficult times: there is always a time for them to begin and a time for them to end, and the man who knows this knows he must thank God for each day he has suffered because that is always one day closer to the sun, the real sun.”
― Andre Dubus III, quote from House of Sand and Fog
“The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.”
― Umberto Eco, quote from Foucault's Pendulum
“Hey, which one of them is supposed to be your boyfriend?” Stark
asked me. Even in the terrible shape he was in, he caught my glance
with his. His voice was scratchy, and he sounded scarily weak, but
his eyes sparkled with humor.
I am!” Heath and Erik said together.”
― P.C. Cast, quote from Tempted
“He suspended thinking; his mind was a bloody vacancy, like a room in which there has been a butchering.”
― Michael Shaara, quote from The Killer Angels
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
― Sun Tzu, quote from The Art of War
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