“A message is not delivered until it is understood.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from The Farseer Trilogy
“Fool, there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from The Farseer Trilogy
“The fight isn't over until you win it...That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man thinks.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from The Farseer Trilogy
“Sometimes I wonder about that grip. The hand was hard and rough, trapping mine within it. And yet it was warm, and not unkind, as it held mine. Only firm. It did not let me slip on the icy streets, but it did not let me escape my fate, either.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from The Farseer Trilogy
“I wondered if there were any way to live amongst other people and refuse to be harnessed by their expectations and dependencies.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from The Farseer Trilogy
“It was an impressive display of good food abused in the name of fashionable cooking.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from The Farseer Trilogy
“Ridicule was a better defense than truth.”
― Anne McCaffrey, quote from The Dragonriders of Pern
“I love her completely . She returns the love wildly. This love is worth the unsaid truths. The hidden lies.”
― Alessandra Torre, quote from Black Lies
“Le bonheur le porta à une hauteur de pensées assez étrangère à son caractère; il considérait les événements de la vie lui, si jeune, comme si déjà il fût arrivé à sa dernière limite."Il faut en convenir, depuis mon arrivée à Parme, se dit-il enfin après plusieurs heures de rêveries délicieuses, je n'ai point eu de joie tranquille et parfaite, comme celle que je trouvais à Naples en galopant dans les chemins de Vomero ou en courant les rives de Misène. Tous”
― Stendhal, quote from The Charterhouse of Parma
“When he ran, he even loved the pain, the hurt of the running, the burning in his lungs and the spasms that sometimes gripped his calves. He loved it because he knew he could endure the pain, and even go beyond it. He had never pushed himself to the limit but he felt all this reserve strength inside of him: more than strength actually—determination. And it sang in him as he ran, his heart pumping blood joyfully through his body.”
― Robert Cormier, quote from The Chocolate War
“Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from The Luxe
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