“Men brave and generous live the best lives, seldom will they sorrow; then there are fools, afraid of everything, who grumble instead of giving.”
― quote from The Poetic Edda
“It is like a man | whom no one loves,-- Why should his life be long?”
― quote from The Poetic Edda
“Exchange of words | with a witless ape Thou must not ever make.”
― quote from The Poetic Edda
“Obłęd i szał, rozczarowanie i żal,
Siądź tu, a opowiem tobie
o męce tęsknoty
I zdwojonym bólu.”
― quote from The Poetic Edda
“And I said to him that I had made a vow in my turn, that I would never marry a man who knew the meaning of fear.”
― quote from The Poetic Edda
“I bid thee be wary, | but be not fearful; (Beware most with ale or another's wife,”
― quote from The Poetic Edda
“A brand from a brand | is kindled and burned, And fire from fire begotten; And man by his speech | is known to men, And the stupid by their stillness.”
― quote from The Poetic Edda
“Wiem, gdzie jesion stoi, Yggdrasill się zowie,
Lśniącą wilgotnością pień jego zroszony;
Z niego idzie rosa, co w dolinach spada,
Koło Urs studni wciąż zielony stoi.”
― quote from The Poetic Edda
“What hast thou to ask? | why comest thou hither? Othin, I know | where thine eye is hidden.”
― quote from The Poetic Edda
“40. The giantess old | in Ironwood sat, In the east, and bore | the brood of Fenrir; Among these one | in monster's guise Was soon to steal | the sun from the sky.”
― quote from The Poetic Edda
“-Svøp nu, Freyja, vindtøiet om dig - vi skal ake, vi to til Jotunheimer!
-Meget mandgalen kan du mig kalde, om jeg aker med dig til Jotunheimer!”
― quote from The Poetic Edda
“13. Fili, Kili, | Fundin, Nali, Heptifili, | Hannar, Sviur, Frar, Hornbori, | Fræg and Loni, Aurvang, Jari, | Eikinskjaldi.”
― quote from The Poetic Edda
“That is the true mingling of kinship when a man can tell someone all his thoughts; anything is better than to be fickle; he is no true friend who only says pleasant things.”
― quote from The Poetic Edda
“37. “That counsel I tenth, that thou trust never oath of an outlaw’s son;”
― quote from The Poetic Edda
“But lately,' she said, wiggling her bare toes, 'I find all men to be very much like wearing high-heeled shoes -- I love how pretty they make me feel, but by the end of the night I can't wait to get rid of them.”
― Beth Hoffman, quote from Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
“He was permanently impressed by the most irrelevant banalities and impossible to impress with real novelty, meaning, or conflict. And he was too moronic to be properly self-loathing--so it was my duty to loathe him instead.”
― Jonathan Lethem, quote from Motherless Brooklyn
“Sometimes the house is so quiet I feel like the only noise that fills my mind is what I've created myself. Remembered conversations come back to me as if my friends and family were right here in the room.”
― Gail Tsukiyama, quote from The Samurai's Garden
“You have forgotten the One
who doesn't care about ownership,
who doesn't try to turn a profit
from every human exchange.”
― Rumi, quote from The Essential Rumi
“I tell you, just when you think you know someone, she shows up looking pretty and carrying a guitar.”
― Emmy Laybourne, quote from Monument 14
The Snow Child
Kings Rising
The Haunted
Knife of Dreams
The Sweet Gum Tree
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