“I think a friend is someone who helps you change for the better. And whether you see them once a day or once a year, if it's a true friend, it doesn't matter.”
― Kristin Levine, quote from The Lions of Little Rock
“Because all the words in the world won't do much good if they're just rattling around in your head.”
― Kristin Levine, quote from The Lions of Little Rock
“I think what's happened, Marlee, is that you've realized the world isn't an addition problem. We tell kids that sometimes. We pretend the world is straightforward, simple, easy. You do this, you get that. You're a good person and try your best, and nothing bad will happen. But the truth is, the world is much more like an algebraic equation. With variables and changes, complicated and messy. Sometimes there's more than one answer, and sometimes there is none. Sometimes we don't even know how to solve the problem. But usually, if we take things step by step, we can figure things out. You just have to remember to factor the equation, break it down into smaller parts.”
― Kristin Levine, quote from The Lions of Little Rock
“I think a friend is someone who helps you change for the better. And whether you see them once a day or once a year, if it’s a true friend, it doesn’t matter.”
― Kristin Levine, quote from The Lions of Little Rock
“He said that things could be different in Little Rock, if only the right people could find their voice. I wanted to be on of those people.”
― Kristin Levine, quote from The Lions of Little Rock
“I’ve thought about it a lot,” I said. “I think a friend is someone who helps you change for the better. And whether you see them once a day or once a year, if it’s a true friend, it doesn’t matter.”
― Kristin Levine, quote from The Lions of Little Rock
“when I took that first deep breath and saw the clear summer sky, and heard my sister and Little Jimmy and Nora and even Sally and JT cheering for me, I swear I heard the lions roar. Click”
― Kristin Levine, quote from The Lions of Little Rock
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“By the light," he said, when he had mastered himself. "I think that beats singing a lullaby to a stormdog for simplicity and economy, Maerad. But I wish I had known that you simply had to blow at Hulls to get rid of them. It would have saved me a few scars.”
― Alison Croggon, quote from The Singing
“In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Skin Trade
“CAPÍTULO C “TU SERÁS FELIZ, BENTINHO” No quarto, desfazendo a mala e tirando a carta de bacharel de dentro da lata, ia pensando na felicidade e na glória. Via o casamento e a carreira ilustre, enquanto José Dias me ajudava calado e zeloso. Uma fada invisível desceu ali, e me disse em voz igualmente macia e cálida: “Tu serás feliz, Bentinho; tu vais ser feliz.” – E por que não seria feliz? perguntou José Dias, endireitando o tronco e fitando-me. – Você ouviu? – perguntei eu erguendo-me também, espantado. – Ouviu o quê? – Ouviu uma voz que dizia que eu serei feliz? – É boa! Você mesmo é que está dizendo... Ainda agora sou capaz de jurar que a voz era da fada; naturalmente as fadas, expulsas dos contos e dos versos, meteram-se no coração da gente e falam de dentro para fora. Esta, por exemplo, muita vez a ouvi clara e distinta. Há de ser prima das feiticeiras da Escócia: “Tu serás rei, Macbeth!” – “Tu serás feliz, Bentinho!” Ao cabo, é a mesma predição, pela mesma toada universal e eterna.”
― Machado de Assis, quote from Dom Casmurro
“America is like an exotic hothouse plant. It can only live now in the artificial environment of vaccinations, sterilization, and antibiotics we started creating a hundred or more years ago.”
― William R. Forstchen, quote from One Second After
“I don’t . . . I don’t want to be like this anymore!” His tone was anguished. “You’re getting so much better,” she murmured. “Soon you won’t have these nightmares.” He narrowed his gaze at her, as if just noticing she was there. “You were . . . murdered—you remind me of the things I’ve done, of consequences,” he choked out. “And you show me what I could have had . . . if I’d been . . . different.” He grasped his head again and muttered, “You’re what’s wrong with my past. What must be missing from my future.” She knew he would remember little to none of these words—but she would. “Conrad, your future’s not settled. You can have good things in your life again.” “You’re the perfect punishment for me.” “Oh.” Stunned, she rose to leave. He reached out to stay her. When he closed his big fist around air, he turned and struck the headboard with frustration. Eyes vacant, burning red, he rasped, “Did any man ever want his penance so much?”
― Kresley Cole, quote from Dark Needs at Night's Edge
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