“Three g’s, and an r: Get in, get the info, get out, relocate.”
― Kim Harrison, quote from The Drafter
“His mind seemed to expand as time became malleable, and with a sudden pop he could almost feel the world reset with a crystalline clarity of lost chances.”
― Kim Harrison, quote from The Drafter
“I told you not to confuse forgetfulness with stupidity,” Allen said. “She’s extremely intelligent. Did you use the audio binder? Give her the Amneoset?”
― Kim Harrison, quote from The Drafter
“and when I found out they had, I came back. What do you think I was doing at the alliance?” “Having drinks, by the looks of it,” he snarked,”
― Kim Harrison, quote from The Drafter
“Extraction?” Taf sighed. “I can do more than drive. I can shoot, too. All us debutantes learn how to shoot before we get our first push-up bras.”
― Kim Harrison, quote from The Drafter
“A good vocabulary,’ he once wrote (April 1959), ‘is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary of one’s age-group. It comes from reading books above one”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, quote from Roverandom
“Maybe...a person can experience an illness as a kind of health. Maybe not every disease is a deficit, a taking away. Maybe what's happening to her is an opening, a window, a migration.”
― Anthony Doerr, quote from Memory Wall
“I know you know, and you know that I know that you know. It spirals on from there, so let's just assume the dot dot dot.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Pathfinder
“...my little blurb wasn't going to win me any speaker-of-the-year awards, but at least I hadn't tripped and fallen off the stage, crushing and killing three elderly jazz fans.”
― Jordan Sonnenblick, quote from Notes from the Midnight Driver
“Your faces are very beautiful,
but they are wooden cages.
You had better run from me.
My words are fire.”
― Rumi, quote from The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
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