“You are my daughter. I would love you if you put out the sun.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Daylight War
“I am the palm and this is only wind. I will bend, but I will not break.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Daylight War
“Sometimes I get so caught up in my own drama, I forget I'm not the only one in the play.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Daylight War
“Fear and pain are only wind. Let it blow past you.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Daylight War
“Cowards kill as often as heroes”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Daylight War
“Great things can be found in small talk”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Daylight War
“Pain teaches, Par’chin, Jardir had once told him, and so we give it freely. Pleasure teaches nothing, and so must be earned.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Daylight War
“We all make mistakes, Gared. But those that can see ’em are halfway to being better men.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Daylight War
“Plant the seeds you have, the Evejah’ting said. For they may bear unexpected fruit.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Daylight War
“The future was a living thing, and could never be truly known. It rippled with change whenever someone used free will to make a choice. But”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Daylight War
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“Pritkin gave me a little shake and I eyed him without favor. The only other occasions when I had been dragged back in time, the trip had been triggered by proximity to a person whose past was being threatened.
I have to tell you,” I said frankly, “if someone is trying to mess with your conception or something, I’m not feeling a pressing need to intervene.”
― Karen Chance, quote from Claimed By Shadow
“A conversation with Mabh was like playing tag with a grizzly bear.”
― Lesley Livingston, quote from Darklight
“All these adoptions of European styles make it obvious that the Greenlanders paid very close attention to European fashions and followed them in detail. The adoptions carry the unconscious message, “We are Europeans, we are Christians, God forbid that anyone could confuse us with the Inuit.” Just as Australia, when I began visiting it in the 1960s, was more British than Britain itself, Europe’s most remote outpost of Greenland remained emotionally tied to Europe. That would have been innocent if the ties had expressed themselves only in two-sided combs and in the position in which the arms were folded over a corpse. But the insistence on “We are Europeans” becomes more serious when it leads to stubbornly maintaining cows in Greenland’s climate, diverting manpower from the summer hay harvest to the Nordrseta hunt, refusing to adopt useful features of Inuit technology, and starving to death as a result. To us in our secular modern society, the predicament in which the Greenlanders found themselves is difficult to fathom. To them, however, concerned with their social survival as much as with their biological survival, it was out of the question to invest less in churches, to imitate or intermarry with the Inuit, and thereby to face an eternity in Hell just in order to survive another winter on Earth. The Greenlanders’ clinging to their European Christian image may have been a factor in their conservatism that I mentioned above: more European than Europeans themselves, and thereby culturally hampered in making the drastic lifestyle changes that could have helped them survive.”
― Jared Diamond, quote from Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
“I sigh. I wonder if practicing in my head counts. I can easily picture myself doing a perfect routine. Somehow it comes out differently once gravity gets involved.”
― Wendy Mass, quote from 11 Birthdays
“I want him to be my Edward -- taking care of me, always. Watching over me, day or night, unsleeping. Keeping me safe, by his side. Caring for me with a passion so pure it can't be corrupted by time or distance or seduction. I know Edward is only fiction. But that doesn't have to mean love like his can only be found in books and movies or rooted in the misty world of dreams.”
― Ellen Hopkins, quote from Tilt
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