“We have two families in life. One were born with that shares our blood. Another we meet along the way that's willing to give it's life for us.”
― quote from The Paladin Prophecy
“I take all the best parts of YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, and combine them into a whole new service called … YouTwit-face.”
― quote from The Paladin Prophecy
“You know the old saying,” said Nick. “Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement.”
― quote from The Paladin Prophecy
“Dude, you're scaring the crap out of me,' said Nick. 'I'm serious, I literally have no crap right now.”
― quote from The Paladin Prophecy
“#41: SLEEP WHEN YOU’RE SLEEPY. CATS TAKE NAPS SO THEY’RE ALWAYS READY FOR ANYTHING.”
― quote from The Paladin Prophecy
“Check that - I've found the end. Nick, please be kind enough to withdraw your head to a reasonable distance from my hindquarters.'
-Ajay”
― quote from The Paladin Prophecy
“It is not the ink and the paper that matter, but the hand that holds the pen.”
― quote from The Paladin Prophecy
“Don't make another's pain the source of your own happiness.”
― quote from The Paladin Prophecy
“He wants us to think for ourselves, without fear of ridicule or judgment. He wants us to make up our minds and ignore what the rest of the world is saying. Pay no attention to fads or fashions, and listen, always, to the voice of your innermost self. Learning who you are is your primary task. There are no mistakes in life, as far as Emerson’s concerned, only lessons. Once you master one lesson, you move on to the next. And the only place you can learn is right now. In the everlasting present.”
― quote from The Paladin Prophecy
“West," said Coach Jericho.
"That's me," said Will, raising his hand slightly.
"That's him," said Nick, pointing.
"That's helpful," said Jericho.”
― quote from The Paladin Prophecy
“Embrace paradox. Look for patterns.
Beethoven holds the key but doesn't know it yet.
Hiding inside your Shangri-La you might find the Gates of Hell”
― quote from The Paladin Prophecy
“If this is a dream, I'm begging you, don't ever let them wake me.”
― quote from The Paladin Prophecy
“Lyle has that same footlocker in his room,” said Nick. “And, dude, the”
― quote from The Paladin Prophecy
“This explains the running, at least, but how on earth did it happen? Am I some kind of freak? No wonder my parents didn't want me on a cross-country team; I'd end up on Ripley's Believe It or Not.”
― quote from The Paladin Prophecy
“I’d spent so long pretending to be Scarlet that maybe the old Ivy had faded away.”
― Sophie Cleverly, quote from The Whispers in the Walls
“The way that woman walked, like she was paying the sidewalk a favor.”
― Marie-Helene Bertino, quote from 2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas
“There is always, for some reason, an element of sadness mingled with my thoughts of human happiness, and, on this occasion, at the sight of a happy man I was overcome by an oppressive feeling that was close upon despair. It was particularly oppressive at night. A bed was made up for me in the room next to my brother’s bedroom, and I could hear that he was awake, and that he kept getting up and going to the plate of gooseberries and taking one. I reflected how many satisfied, happy people there really are! ‘What a suffocating force it is! You look at life: the insolence and idleness of the strong, the ignorance and brutishness of the weak, incredible poverty all about us, overcrowding, degeneration, drunkenness, hypocrisy, lying... Yet all is calm and stillness in the houses and in the streets; of the fifty thousand living in a town, there is not one who would cry out, who would give vent to his indignation aloud. We see the people going to market for provisions, eating by day, sleeping by night, talking their silly nonsense, getting married, growing old, serenely escorting their dead to the cemetery; but we do not see and we do not hear those who suffer, and what is terrible in life goes on somewhere behind the scenes... Everything is quiet and peaceful, and nothing protests but mute statistics: so many people gone out of their minds, so many gallons of vodka drunk, so many children dead from malnutrition... And this order of things is evidently necessary; evidently the happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burdens in silence, and without that silence happiness would be impossible. It’s a case of general hypnotism. There ought to be behind the door of every happy, contented man some one standing with a hammer continually reminding him with a tap that there are unhappy people; that however happy he may be, life will show him her laws sooner or later, trouble will come for him—disease, poverty, losses, and no one will see or hear, just as now he neither sees nor hears others. But there is no man with a hammer; the happy man lives at his ease, and trivial daily cares faintly agitate him like the wind in the aspen-tree—and all goes well.”
― Anton Chekhov, quote from Stories
“Tsk, tsk, tsk, Maziar,” he said sarcastically. “Don’t play games with me, or you will make me angry again. Don’t tell me that you don’t know about these parties where men and women start with dinner and drinking alcohol and then go to the swimming pool, where they eat chocolate off each other’s bodies.” I sat silently, trying to picture it. How on earth does one eat chocolate off another person’s body in a swimming pool? I had a picture in my mind of chocolate floating on the surface of the water, and then I began to imagine the mixed taste of chlorine and chocolate.”
― Maziar Bahari, quote from Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival
“Isn’t it weird that we had nothing at the time … but somehow it felt like we had everything.”
― Renee Carlino, quote from Swear on This Life
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