“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
“Hurt me once: shame on me. Hurt me twice: shame on me. Hurt me three times: shame on me but fuck you. Hurt me four times and we’ll get severed-head biblical.”
― Trista Mateer, quote from The Dogs I Have Kissed
“The thing I fear most is fear.”
― Michel de Montaigne, quote from The Complete Essays of Montaigne
“Your potential, the absolute best you’re capable of—that’s the metric to measure yourself against. Your standards are. Winning is not enough. People can get lucky and win. People can be assholes and win. Anyone can win. But not everyone is the best possible version of themselves.”
― Ryan Holiday, quote from Ego Is the Enemy
“Nevertheless, he had, on a certain star-lit evening, said wonderingly and quite reverently: "Deh moon looks like hell, don't it?”
― Stephen Crane, quote from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
“—Lilith. Named you meself. Did you know Adam had a first wife before Eve? Called her Lilith, but the bitch was too headstrong so got rid of her, he did. Headstrong, another word for uppity.”
― Marlon James, quote from Book Of Night Women
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