“You are not living, you are surviving.”
― Michael Scott, quote from The Necromancer
“Good or bad is a matter of perspective. I met an immortal hunami once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― Michael Scott, quote from The Necromancer
“Often the greatest act of courage is admitting that one has made a mistake. [...] Follow your hearts. Protect one another, trust one another, because, at the end of the day, all of these people want something from you, or want you to do something for them, or be something that you are not. Your own responsibility is to one another.”
― Michael Scott, quote from The Necromancer
“Niten's eyes didn't move, but a trace of a smile curled his lips. "I do not need my eyes to tell me where I'm going."
"I have no idea what that means," Josh said. "Is it like some sort of ninja trick?"
Niten shot Josh a warning look. "Whatever you do, don't mention-"
It was too late. In the backseat Aoife stirred. "Ninjas," she spat. "Why is everyone so obsessed with ninjas? They were never that good. And they were cowards, sneaking around in their black pajamas, stabbing their victims with poisoned darts. I hate ninjas-they have no honor.”
― Michael Scott, quote from The Necromancer
“There is always something to see, if you only know how to look.”
― Michael Scott, quote from The Necromancer
“Even that. What is the point in living forever, if it is not with the woman I love?”
― Michael Scott, quote from The Necromancer
“You told me it was a mistake to fight the scarred warriors. They were the survivors.”
― Michael Scott, quote from The Necromancer
“But the truth is a double-edged sword; it is a dangerous thing.”
― Michael Scott, quote from The Necromancer
“I am not afraid to die because I know that when we go, we will go together. It is living without you that would be unbearable.”
― Michael Scott, quote from The Necromancer
“I met an immortal humani once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. -Aoife the Shadows”
― Michael Scott, quote from The Necromancer
“I am not talking about immortality now," Perenelle said, her Breton accent thickening. "We have lived for centuries, Nicholas, centuries. I am not afraid to die because I know that when we go, we will go together. It is living without you that would be unbearable.”
― Michael Scott, quote from The Necromancer
“Sisters are a trial,” he said. “And it doesn’t matter if they’re Elder or humani. Sometimes I think they exist solely to upset and annoy their brothers.”
― Michael Scott, quote from The Necromancer
“Clarent and Excalibur. Together. Yesterday, he had held them in his hands and watched as the two swords had fused together to create a single stone sword. Even from across the room, Dee could feel the power radiating from the object in long slow waves.”
― Michael Scott, quote from The Necromancer
“Everything she touched either crumbled to dust or dissolved into a powder that gave off spores. The”
― Michael Scott, quote from The Necromancer
“Однако пришло время сказать всю правду о сделке Фауста. Все нагло лгали по этому поводу, и больше всего и гениальнее всех – сам Гёте, чтобы, затуманив суть дела, скрыть жестокую правду. Скорее всего не нужно этого говорить, так как если я и не люблю чего-то делать, так это лишать людей надежды. И все же истинная трагедия Фауста заключается не в том, что он продал душу дьяволу. Настоящая трагедия в том, что нет никакого дьявола, чтобы купить вашу душу. Просто нет покупателя. Никто не поможет вам поймать последний мяч, какую бы цену вы за это ни предлагали. Конечно же, есть масса шарлатанов, объявляющих себя покупателями, и я не говорю, что с ними нельзя договориться так, чтобы извлечь некоторую выгоду. Можно. Это принесет вам успех, деньги, поклонение толпы. Но все это напрасный труд, и будь вы Микеланджело, Гёте, Моцарт, Толстой, Достоевский или Мальро, вы все равно умрете с чувством, что всю жизнь были простым бакалейщиком.
После вышесказанного я, конечно же, продолжаю упорствовать.”
― Romain Gary, quote from Promise at Dawn
“It is generally the trustful and optimistic people who can afford to retreat. The loveless and faithless ones are compelled by their pessimism to attack.”
― T.H. White, quote from The Ill-Made Knight
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"As it was, my first days on Earth were somewhat anticlimactic. Mother and Father seemed so happy tempting and corrupting that I didn't want to interrupt them. But the fact was that I hadn't the slightest clue what to do with myself. I tried to convince cows to take over the world, to rampage across the fields slaughtering all in their wake, to start a new religion of udder worship, to build cities devoted to the consumption of grass, their aqueducts running with fresh milk. I even prepared a pictorial presentation of cows traveling into outer space aboard butter-powered space churns, but the cows seemed unconvinced, and soon returned to wondering how many stomachs they had. The current belief was seventeen. Cows:Unambitious.”
― quote from Death: A Life
“You'll never find a worse critic than the one inside your own skin, or a more difficult one to silence," I told Pieras, by means of explanation. "The best you can hope for is to teach it some manners.”
― Lisa Shearin, quote from Magic Lost, Trouble Found
“I wanted … people to listen to the pulse of nature, to partake of the wholeness of life and not forget, under the pressure of their petty destinies, that we are not gods and have not created ourselves but are the children of the earth, part of the cosmos.”
― Hermann Hesse, quote from Peter Camenzind
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