“There are times when our victories have a cost that we did not foresee, when winning brings us loss.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Firebird
“Ye'll learn more of a man if ye look at his face when he's looking at somebody else, than ye'll learn any other way, but,' he advised her, 'ye have to keep silent to do it”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Firebird
“But what you bring back with you in the end, he said, might not be what you started out in search of to begin with”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Firebird
“Hiding the person you are,' he said, 'won't make you happy. I never hide who I am. What I am.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Firebird
“The strongest soldier cannot balance long upon the blade that does divide his honor and his heart, and whatever way he falls, the cut will kill him.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Firebird
“The world becomes a wider place, with but a little learning.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Firebird
“We rarely see the things we don’t expect to see.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Firebird
“Because it is in giving of ourselves and our possessions that we best please God; by actions, not words. And all men do deserve a chance to earn God's grace.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Firebird
“The firebird drops a feather, was his summary, and if you're fool enough to pick it up and chase the bird itself, you're in for trouble.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Firebird
“She nodded, looking down at the small wooden bird, a plain thing carved by a great man who'd always taken pleasure in creating things with his own hands. She's telling me, I think, that I should seek to be none other than myself, and so fly always like the bird that I was born to be.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Firebird
“We cannot know a man's nature when all does go well with him, but when those people he thinks will assist him oppose him instead, then we know, for a man has the patience and humility that he shows then, and no more.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Firebird
“Some things weren’t meant to live in cages.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Firebird
“Tis the curse of a woman of influence that she must always be reckoned unvirtuous.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Firebird
“into the air. There was love here—not perfect, but strong,”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Firebird
“There are times,” he said to Anna, “when our victories have a cost that we did not foresee, when winning brings us loss.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Firebird
“My love, cease thy weeping, now listen to me, For waking and sleeping, my heart is with thee; Love, let nothing grieve thee, and do not complain, For I never will leave thee, while life doth remain.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Firebird
“Now do that with your thoughts as well, pluck out the needless vanities and worries, and you’ll find you grow the straighter for it.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Firebird
“Edmund had obviously never yet experienced the speed with which news traveled round the docklands. “Is there anyone who does not know him?” “All”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Firebird
“And does he like blondes, as well?'
Rob laughed. I had forgotten just how great a laugh he had. 'No, he prefers, dark haired women. You've nothing to fear from the Sentinel, Nicola.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Firebird
“Remember the faith you were raised in my child, and love not in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth; and whoever may come to you, either a friend or a foe, or a thief or a robber, receive them with kindness, for each man must walk on the path to which he has been called.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Firebird
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“Being too cool for school was Jace's thing.”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
“I often thought the most unfair thing about having Moebius wasn’t Moebius at all, but other people’s inability to define me by anything else.”
― David Arnold, quote from Kids of Appetite
“It had never occurred to her that she might adore the adult Clay even more than she had the youth, but there it was. The man her friend had grown into—well, he enchanted her, brooding temper, dark kisses, animal protectiveness, and all. To her delight, the feeling seemed to be mutual. But the separation had scarred them both. What would it do to Clay if this disease succeeded in killing her?”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Mine to Possess
“The water rippled when he leaned in; he studied what he saw. Against a background of blue sky, there was his face, broad of forehead and overly long, and he was surprised at the new look of age on him. To everybody else, I must look ten years beyond twenty-seven, he thought, and it made him glad. Even had begun to fear gaps and what they might mean. Wide-spanning spaces between age and its weight of language and ability had begun to feel like easy reasons for saying good-bye. He saw inside the calm reflection a gull flying low over his head, braced by clouds drifting east toward Runnelstown.
Turning back, he walked north around moss-based trees and finally found her digging wild onions growing thick next to fern. With her back to him she said, "Tired does one of two things-either builds the soul or breaks the heart. Can't decide which it is right now. All I know is I'm tired.”
― Melinda Haynes, quote from Mother of Pearl
“did learn a lesson: The female mind is capable”
― Richard Feynman, quote from The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
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