“That easy, confident grin returned. “Don’t worry, it’s easily forgotten.”
“Well,” I said huffily, “it shouldn’t be that easily forgotten.”
“Would you like it better if I say I’ll eventually forget it but not without a great deal of struggle and torment?”
“Yes.”
“Done.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“We’re all in charge of our own lives—and we have to live with the consequences of the choices we make.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“Do you think my being someone else's wife will change anything? Don't you know that I'd lie with you in the groves, under the light of the moon? That I'd defy the laws of gods and men for you?”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“Bad things are always going to happen,” my father had told me in his last year. “There’s no way to avoid that. Our control comes in how we face them. Do we let them crush us, making us despondent? Do we face them unflinchingly and endure the pain? Do we outsmart them?”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“Mister Thorn, something tells me you could sell salvation to a priest.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“Bad things are always going to happen. There’s no way to avoid that. Our control comes in how we face them. Do we let them crush us, making us despondent? Do we face the unflinchingly and endure the pain? Do we outsmart them?”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“We’re all in charge of our own lives—and we have to live with the consequences of the choices we make.” Those”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“I agree. I certainly like your mouth”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“For a moment, all I could think of was my cousin Peter. He was twice my age—and married. By the rules of decent, he would be the one to inherit the Rothford title if I died without children. Whenever he was in town, he'd stop by and ask how I was feeling”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“I realized then that I was taking the first approach to this "bad thing" with Lionel: I was letting it crush me. And so, I decided then and there that I would choose the nobler, unflinching approach. I would endure the pain.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“I'd never really planned on stealing someone else's life.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“Don't you know that I'd lie with you in the groves, under the light of the moon? That I'd defy the laws of gods and men for you?”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“You're too strong, too opinionated, to just let yourself go with the first offer. You deserve more. You deserve to have them lined up in front of you.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“La guerra fa emergere il mostro che è nell’uomo.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“I certainly like your mouth." --Cedric”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“Siamo tutti responsabili delle nostre esistenze... e dobbiamo vivere con le conseguenze delle scelte che facciamo.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“Se le credenze di qualcuno non fanno del male al prossimo, non credo che quel qualcuno debba essere punito.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“Non sei morto”, mormorai.
Quasi si strozzò con una risata. “Anch’io sono contento di vederti, cara”.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“Tutte le storie hanno un seme di verità.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
“Chi minaccia di tradirti ora non rinuncerà mai a farlo.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Glittering Court
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“Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and three or four years ago he took up Einstein and vitamins.”
― Joyce Cary, quote from The Horse's Mouth
“Leatherbound books are an expensive form of wallpaper, and yet every English nobleman’s home seems to have had them. Their endless sets of the works of Cooper and Scott and Goethe, in finely tanned bindings with marbled endpapers, all end up with this sort of dealer sooner or later. I look through a set of Cooper and, without surprise, find uncut pages: these books were never actually read.”
― Paul Collins, quote from Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books
“This tiny, white-washed Infants' room was a brief but cosy anarchy. In that short time allowed us we played and wept, broke things, fell asleep, cheeked the teacher, discovered things we could do to each other, and exhaled our last guiltless days.
My desk companions were those two blonde girls, already puppyishly pretty, whose names and bodies were to distract and haunt me for the next fifteen years of my life. Poppy and Jo were limper chums; they sat holding hands all day; and there was a female self-possession about their pink sticky faces that made me shout angrily at them.
Vera was another I studied and liked; she was lonely, fuzzy and short. I felt a curious compassion for stumpy Vera; and it was through her, and no beauty, that I got into trouble and received the first public shock of my life. How it happened was simple, and I was innocent, so it seemed. She came up to me in the playground one morning and held her face close to mine. I had a stick in my hand, so I hit her on the head with it. Her hair was springy, so I hit her again and watched her mouth open up with a yell.
To my surprise a commotion broke out around me, cries of scandal from the older girls, exclamations of horror and heavy censure mixed with Vera's sobbing wails. I was intrigued, not alarmed, that by wielding a beech stick I was able to cause such a stir. So I hit her again, without spite or passion, then walked off to try something else.”
― Laurie Lee, quote from Cider With Rosie
“If anything, love was like light, illuminating what no one would have ever guessed was there in the darkness.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The River King
“But his eyes say what he can’t. I see it, clear as day, even if she doesn’t. He’d give up his wings for her. All she’d have to do is ask.”
― Lisa Desrochers, quote from Personal Demons
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