“It did not do to give your heart to a man so entirely, she thought. Men did not value what they came by easily. Once you loved, you laid yourself open to pain.”
“She had already decided that, when she grew up, she was going to do whatever she pleased and not let anyone order her about.”
“I waste so much time sleeping. And time is of all losses the most irrecuperable, for it can never be redeemed.”
“I must bear it well as I may. As my sainted mother used to say, we never come to the kingdom of Heaven but by troubles.”
“But what use was the semblance of power without the substance?”
“Often, little brother, there is no smoke without fire.”
“What she loved was being admired, being wanted, being pursued—but she did not think she wanted ever to be caught.”
“Kat embraced her, concealing her dismay as best she could. For these few months, fraught as they were, Elizabeth had been entirely hers again.”
“Life was good, and already she understood that to be aware of happiness when you were actually feeling it, and not just in retrospect, was to be happy indeed.”
“He was not afraid, in fact he was content to go: So much that had been pleasurable in his life was now beyond his capacity, and that he could not bear.”
“Some of my subjects do not know what is good for them,”
“As I've always said to Talyn, tough times never last. But tough Andarions. I learned that from watching you as a boy. Your parents, grandparents, and Keris treated you like shit and yet you never once spoke against them. You'd just lift your chin and carry on. 'Barking dogs don't bother me,' you used to say. 'Sooner or later, they reach the end of their yard and hit a fence. I'll keep going past it, and won't hear them anymore.”
“Outside the rain finally began to fall, surging in fits and starts. “I love the way it rains here,” he told her. “It reminds me that some forces of nature can never be entirely subdued. They are eternal, which is a far better thing to be than immortal.”
“I refuse to believe you've misinterpreted my affections. I am wholly in love with you. And it is permanent.”
“A teacher (a good teacher) is composed of molecules of education and intelligence, bonded together by patience and passion.”
“Смятам, че ако утре бъдат изобретени и построени апарати, с които ще можем да летим до най-отдалечената звезда, до някои от онези светове, чиято светлина, според собствените ни фатални изчисления, ще достигне до нас много след изстиването на земята, ако утре бъдем транспортирани там в едно още незапочнало време, ще заварим на тази звезда същия ужас, същите страдания, същата лудост и умопомрачение. Вярвам, че ако се приспособим дотолкова добре към ритъма на звездите над нас, та да избегнем чудото на стълкновението, ще успеем също да се нагодим и към съдбата, която бива задействана едновременно тук, там, отвъд земните предели и навсякъде. И следователно тази всеобща съдба не може да бъде избегната, освен ако всички заедно: хора, животни, растения, минерали, камъни, реки, дървета и планини, не пожелаят това – едновременно, тук и там, отвъд земните предели и навсякъде.”
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