“to take something that was meant for good and use it to do evil is a sin.”
― Chanda Hahn, quote from The Iron Butterfly
“then pain. “Ouch! Blistering son of a scorpion!” I cussed.”
― Chanda Hahn, quote from The Iron Butterfly
“The dark does not like to be ignored, and its call is sweet like honey, but it will devour you whole and spit you out.”
― Chanda Hahn, quote from The Iron Butterfly
“Thalia, if you don’t want to be the prey anymore, then you can only do one thing. Become the hunter.”
― Chanda Hahn, quote from The Iron Butterfly
“We need you to catch up on your defensive training as soon as possible. And I will have to discuss this with the Council.” Her hand went to her hips. “Now remember,” she went on, “you are to go nowhere without Kael, unless he is busy instructing, then you are to either have Captain Garit or Joss with you at all times. Any questions?” I opened my mouth for a rebuttal, but she”
― Chanda Hahn, quote from The Iron Butterfly
“Down in this hell, silence was more than golden; it was the difference between life and death.”
― Chanda Hahn, quote from The Iron Butterfly
“He had come to take one of us to Raven. Drips of sweat beaded across my forehead as the footsteps drew closer.”
― Chanda Hahn, quote from The Iron Butterfly
“attending to the stable boy with the silver piece. I didn’t know why I was acting this way. I kept”
― Chanda Hahn, quote from The Iron Butterfly
“Ruzaa, stay strong. Never change who you are for anyone.”
― Chanda Hahn, quote from The Iron Butterfly
“Darren stayed way past visiting hours and Healer Prentiss, not swayed by Darren's good looks, kicked them both out.”
― Chanda Hahn, quote from The Iron Butterfly
“Ouch! Blistering son of a scorpion!” I cussed.”
― Chanda Hahn, quote from The Iron Butterfly
“Or maybe it's that you would prefer someone else as your bodyguard altogether? Someone like Joss? Who is probably still hiding in your room, by the way.”
― Chanda Hahn, quote from The Iron Butterfly
“Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.”
― Amy Plum, quote from After the End
“I could put some serious hurt on Prince Not-So-Charming if I need to.”
― Carey Corp, quote from Doon
“At a time which seemed to him as far distant as the dim and distant past of his ancestors, his father, Okumana, the man who could make better spear tips than anyone else, had explained to him that there was always a way out of any situation, as long as one was alive. Death was the last hiding place. That was something to keep in reserve until there was no other way of avoiding an apparently insuperable threat. There were always escape routes that were not immediately obvious, and that was why humans, unlike animals, had a brain. In order to look inward, not outward. Inward, toward the secret places where the spirits of one’s ancestors were waiting to act as a man’s guide through life. Who am I? he thought. A human being who has lost his identity is no longer a human being. He is an animal. That’s what has happened to me. I started to kill people because I myself was dead. When I was a child and saw the signs, the accursed signs telling the blacks where they were allowed to go and what existed exclusively for the whites, I started to be diminished even then. A child should grow, grow bigger; but in my country a black child had to learn how to grow smaller and smaller. I saw my parents succumb to their own invisibility, their own accumulated bitterness. I was an obedient child and learned to be a nobody among nobodies. Apartheid was my real father. I learned what no one should need to learn. To live with falsehood, contempt, a lie elevated to the only truth in my country. A lie enforced by the police and laws, but above all by a flood of white water, a torrent of words about the natural differences between white and black, the superiority of white civilization. That superiority turned me into a murderer, songoma. And I can believe this is the ultimate consequence of learning to grow smaller and smaller as a child. For what has this apartheid, this falsified white superiority been but a systematic plundering of our souls? When our despair exploded in furious”
― Henning Mankell, quote from The White Lioness
“I should probably say fuck it and give in.” “To what?” she asked, looking worried. “To walking up to you and kissing the fuck out of you.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from No Mercy
“This place is all fun and games.”
― James Dashner, quote from The Fever Code
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