“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
“We dream of the world we could have made, and wake up in the world that we did.”
― Craig Stone, quote from The Squirrel that Dreamt of Madness
“This man, commenting on the attack at Dennis Kebab, says we need more racists like Sverre Olsen to regain control of Norway. In the interview the word “racist” is used as a term of respect. Does the accused consider himself a “racist”?”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from The Redbreast
“I continued down the hallway, past the library, with my eyes downcast, not wanting to talk to anyone. So immersed was I in my misery that I recoiled at the sound of a male voice emanating from just a few paces in front of me.
"I know feet are fascinating, Alera, but it's much more sensible to pay attention to where you're going."
Steldor stood outside the door to our quarters wearing a cocky and irritating grin, and for the thousandth time that day, I felt myself turning crimson. I stared at him, struggling for a witty rejoinder but unable to produce one.
"Did you want something, my lord?" I finally asked, forcing a smile that felt like a grimace.
"I simply wanted to see my beautiful wife," he said, countenance still smug, although his eyes had softened and I suspected the compliment was sincere.”
― Cayla Kluver, quote from Allegiance
“finish. As if I am satisfied with my performance. As if”
― Josh Sundquist, quote from Just Don't Fall: How I Grew Up, Conquered Illness, and Made It Down the Mountain
“[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject.”
― Honoré de Balzac, quote from La Obra Maestra Desconocida
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