“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
“Present company excluded, this looked to be the most pleasant detention ever experienced by mankind. Further proof that librarians should run the world-or a least be in charge of detention at Bathory High.”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Tenth Grade Bleeds
“Whether it’s chocolate or socks, the rule is the same: the darker the better.”
― Pseudonymous Bosch, quote from This Isn't What It Looks Like
“Three questions,” I said, ticking them off on my fingers as I spoke. “One: do you have a car? Two: do you have plans tonight? And three: how fast can you drive?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Taken by Storm
“Ellie, I would rather die than ever break your heart. I have never in my life felt like this. I would lay down my life for you if i had to. I love you baby”
― Kelly Elliott, quote from Wanted
“For the hundredth time tonight, I’m back with Lulu, on Jacques’s barge, the improbably named Viola. She’d just toldme the story of double happiness and we were arguing over the meaning. She’d thought it meant the luck of the boy getting the job and the girl. But I’d disagreed. It was the couplet fitting together, the two halves finding each other. It was love.
But maybe we were both wrong, and both right. It’s not either or, not luck or love. Not fate or will.
Maybe for double happiness, you need both.”
― Gayle Forman, quote from Just One Year
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