“It seems to me them that sees an evil thing unfold and don't do nothin' to prevent it, are just as bad as them that does the evil.”
― Kate Constable, quote from The Singer of All Songs
“all the gods are the same unknowable mystery, just as each face of a jewel strikes light in a different direction”
― Kate Constable, quote from The Singer of All Songs
“...There is a tale, as old as the Ancient Ones themselves, that one would arise who has that gift: to sing all the chantments, the high notes and the low, the swift rhythms and the slow. And this person would be more powerful than even the Ancient Ones were, as powerful as the gods themselves.”
― Kate Constable, quote from The Singer of All Songs
“Calwyn stopped in her tracks, and her song faltered on her lips. For the space of a heartbeat she thought she must be dreaming; the steady chantment she’d been singing without pause since dawn jerked almost into silence.”
― Kate Constable, quote from The Singer of All Songs
“Calwyn felt suddenly very solemn and serious. Usually during lessons and lectures she felt only a fierce desire to be elsewhere or an irresistible urge to fidget, but now she sat as still as a statue, sensing that what Marna was about to tell her was more important, and certainly more interesting, than herb lore or weaving patterns.”
― Kate Constable, quote from The Singer of All Songs
Kate Constable
Born place: in Sandringham, Melborne (Victoria), Australia
Born date January 1, 1966
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“… Кучето ми бе успяло да се върне, бяха му простреляли дробовете, но донесе покупките, успях и да го погаля, успях да му дам и бучка захар за похвала и награда, но то не я взе, сложи глава в скута ми и така бавно гаснеше, зад мен скланяше над нас глава кончето, поемаше с ноздри миризмата на кучето, дойде и козата, и котката, която спеше заедно с кучето, но мен така и не остави да я погаля, въпреки че, така отдалече, тя май ме обичаше най-много, когато й говорех, лягаше по гръб, гънеше се и се извиваше, и отправяше към мен лапички и погледи, все едно че я милвах под гушката или по кожухчето й, но протегнех ли към нея ръка, всеки път силата на плахостта я изстрелваше далеч от досега на пръстите ми… дойде котката и се сгуши, както бе свикнала, в козината на овчарката, аз протегнах към нея длан, но тя се беше загледала в гаснещите очи на кучето, и аз я погалих, тя ме изгледа, давайки ми да разбера, че за нея това е отвратително и че го е преодоляла само заради смъртта на приятеля си, затова предпочете да затвори очи и да пъхне глава в козината на кучето, за да не гледа това, от което изпитваше ужас и за което инак копнееше.”
― Bohumil Hrabal, quote from I Served the King of England
“But if it be never - if I can never hold sweet converse again with her, or look upon her face, or know from her her love; why, then, this side the grave, I will live as becomes the man whom she loves...”
― Anthony Hope, quote from The Prisoner of Zenda
“Sissy tilted her chair back so far I was sure she’d fall on her head any second. Not that I cared. Maybe she’d leave if she hurt herself.”
― Mary Downing Hahn, quote from Deep and Dark and Dangerous (A Ghost Story)
“Something once lost will never return”
― Yana Toboso, quote from Black Butler, Vol. 1
“But a man of tender sensitivities finds disruption unpleasant; he finds it unpleasant to break in on a well-constructed train of thought with his own logical or historical objections culled from memory, and even in the anti-intellectual he will honor and respect the intellect. Today we can see clearly enough that it was the mistake of our civilization to have been all too generous in exercising such forbearance and respect—since on the opposing side we were indeed dealing with naked insolence and the most determined intolerance.”
― Thomas Mann, quote from Doctor Faustus
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