“Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.'
-Marielle”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from The Realms of the Gods
“You fed it.' The badger sighed. 'Sometimes I think you'll feed anything.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from The Realms of the Gods
“What has that to do with the price of peas in Persopolis?”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from The Realms of the Gods
“This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind's rosebushes.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from The Realms of the Gods
“I bet his mother was a wyvern.
-Scamp”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from The Realms of the Gods
“I love you,” he whispered. “If you get yourself killed, I will never forgive you.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from The Realms of the Gods
“I wish we had a sign that this flaming dragon is part of an attack or something. Those dung heaps might think it’s just one of their own monsters enjoying the sunrise.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from The Realms of the Gods
“There is a thin line of me, wavering and not strong, that wants to learn the language of beasts and water and night.”
― Jeanette Winterson, quote from Gut Symmetries
“Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: What then? The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.”
― Charles Dickens, quote from A Christmas Carol, The Chimes and The Cricket on the Hearth
“impossible for me to be in correspondence with a Jew even if it were not that I have an official position to maintain. If a communication becomes necessary you must enclose it with the bank draft and not write to me at my house again. As for the stern measures that so distress you, I myself did not like them at first, but I have come to see their painful necessity. The Jewish race is a sore spot to any nation that harbors it. I have never hated the individual Jew -- yourself I have always cherished as a friend, but you will know that I speak in all honesty when I say I have loved you, not because of your race but in spite of it. The”
― Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, quote from Address Unknown
“هنوز هم لاغر و استخوانیام ولی عضله پیدا کرده ام و چروکهای ریزی به چهرهام خط کشیدهاند. زشت نیستم ولی جذاب هم نیستم. بیشتر به درخت شبیهام تا به انسان؛ تنهٔ درخت کوچک جانسخت و قهوهای رنگی که به تمام نیروی خود محتاج است تا زنده بماند.”
― Marlen Haushofer, quote from The Wall
“a dangerous thing for any state to maintain its power by plugging up the vent of complaints, stifling the voices of the people. When complaining becomes a crime, hope becomes despair. He finished”
― Jeff Shaara, quote from Rise to Rebellion
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