“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
Tamora Pierce
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“Go down." It seemed obvious. "You have to go down before you can come out - that's how these things always work.”
― Tad Williams, quote from City of Golden Shadow
“Swine are held by the Egyptians to be unclean beasts. In the first place, if an Egyptian touches a hog in passing, he goes to the river and dips himself in it, clothed as he is; and in the second place, swineherds, though native born Egyptians, are alone of all men forbidden to enter any Egyptian temple; nor will any give a swineherd his daughter in marriage, nor take a wife from their women; but swineherds intermarry among themselves. [2] Nor do the Egyptians think it right to sacrifice swine to any god except the Moon and Dionysus; to these, they sacrifice their swine at the same time, in the same season of full moon; then they eat the meat. The Egyptians have an explanation of why they sacrifice swine at this festival, yet abominate them at others; I know it, but it is not fitting that I relate it. [3] But this is how they sacrifice swine to the Moon: the sacrificer lays the end of the tail and the spleen and the caul together and covers them up with all the fat that he finds around the belly, then consigns it all to the fire; as for the rest of the flesh, they eat it at the time of full moon when they sacrifice the victim; but they will not taste it on any other day. Poor men, with but slender means, mold swine out of dough, which they then take and sacrifice. (2:47)”
― Herodotus, quote from The Histories
“There are moments that define a person's whole life. MOMENTS in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become hinge on a single decision.”
― Jonathan Maberry, quote from Rot & Ruin
“I love the English language, playing with words, watching sentences fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle,”
― Jane Green, quote from Jemima J
“I thought of the “Roman way” of impaling oneself on a sword. Certainly poison seemed more civilized. And I thought the Romans were a little too eager to commit suicide. It did not take much of a setback before they were reaching for their swords, or opening their veins.”
― Margaret George, quote from The Memoirs of Cleopatra
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