“Sometimes what we don't want is actually what we need.”
― Nikolas Lee, quote from The Iron-Jawed Boy
“No one is only one thing, my dear.”
― Nikolas Lee, quote from The Iron-Jawed Boy
“Your jaw makes you different, Ionikus Reaves, and more often than not, it is our differences that make us stronger.”
― Nikolas Lee, quote from The Iron-Jawed Boy
“The Balance, my boy, is the war that has been waged since before time was time, the battle within ourselves to do what is good and reject what is bad. It is a delicate line we all walk, a constant struggle of push and pull.”
― Nikolas Lee, quote from The Iron-Jawed Boy
“When he wasn’t busy chasing unseen mice around the academy, Ion spent hours in the Borean Study, searching through dusty books for anything that had to do with the banshee or the Shroud. But finding this anything proved to be difficult as well, especially when the books you’re reading have everything to do with something, but certainly nothing to do with your anything. And in trying to find this anything, Ion forgot about a very important, specific thing, which would quickly ruin his Wednesday.”
― Nikolas Lee, quote from The Iron-Jawed Boy
“There are two great days in a person’s life—the day we are born and the day we discover why.” William Barclay I”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Embrace
“hayatımızın, birtakım ehemmiyetsiz teferruatın oyuncağı olduğunu, çünkü asıl hayatın teferruattan ibaret bulunduğunu görüyordum. bizim mantığımızla hayatın mantığı asla birbirine uymuyordu. bir kadın, trenin penceresinden dışarı bakabilir, bu sırada gözüne bir kömür parçası kaçar, o ehemmiyet vermeden bunu ovuşturur ve bu minimini hadise dünyanın en güzel gözlerinden birini kör edebilirdi. Yahut bir kiremit, hafif bir rüzgarla yerinden oynayarak, devrin gıpta ettiği bir kafayı parçalayabilirdi. göz mü mühim kömür parçası mı, kiremit mi mühim kafa mı diye düşünmek nasıl aklımıza gelmiyorsa ve bütün bunları nasıl hiç mütalaa yürütmeden kabule mecbursak, hayatın daha başka türlü birçok cilvelerine de aynı tevekkülle katlanmaya mecburduk.”
― Sabahattin Ali, quote from Kürk Mantolu Madonna
“It’s not our talents that make us safe or dangerous, it’s our choices.”
― Josephine Angelini, quote from Dreamless
“Bet you ten bucks we make it."
What are the odds? she thought, and realized with sudden, blinding clarity that she wouldn't take the other side of that bet, that only a loser would bet against them. This is really it, she thought, amazed. This is really forever. I believe in this.
"Min?" he said, and she kissed him, putting all her heart into it.
"No bet," she said against his mouth. "Your odds are too good."
"Our odds are too good”
― Jennifer Crusie, quote from Bet Me
“Petroc Trelawney looked as pleased as a pebble can look, which was pretty much the same as he had looked before.”
― Angie Sage, quote from Magyk
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