“Love token? So far you've given me a farthing charm and a book of manners I don't need. No wonder you idiots need a tournament to get married." Tress”
― Megan Derr, quote from Tournament of Losers
“It looked like it could use a drink," his father mumbled. "I gave it some gin." "Spirits”
― Megan Derr, quote from Tournament of Losers
“Maybe drinking five or six ales before getting into a massive brawl hadn't been the wisest choice.”
― Megan Derr, quote from Tournament of Losers
“The first hit is always yours.”
― Megan Derr, quote from Tournament of Losers
“Rath laughed. "Well I don't recall yours either, so we'll call it even.”
― Megan Derr, quote from Tournament of Losers
“Tu netrīci. Dzīvība tevī trīc. Tam nav nekāda sakara ar drosmi. Drosme cilvēkam ir tad, kad tas var pretoties. Viss pārējais ir dižošanās. Mūsu dzīvība ir saprātīgāka nekā mēs paši.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from A Time to Love and a Time to Die
“At every wedding someone stays home.”
― Sarah Dessen, quote from That Summer
“So my eyes spotted it and my brain processed it and rejected it instantly, on a purely preprogrammed basis. And then it hung up on it. Out of pure animal instinct. Because it looked like a snake. The lizard part of my brain whispered snake and I got that little primeval jolt of fright that had kept my ancestors alive and well way back in evolution. It was all over in a split second. It was smothered immediately. The modern educated part of my mind stepped in and said, No snakes here in January, bud. Way too cold. I breathed out and moved on a step and then paused to look back, purely out of curiosity.”
― Lee Child, quote from The Enemy
“Spoznal se, da je ljudstvo zanikrno in leno ter da se ne izplača, da se žrtvujes zanj. Zaman sem bil klical in vabil. Misliš, da je ogromni večini ljudij kaj do resnice? Kje neki! Svoj mir zahtevajo ter bajke za svojo lačno domišljijo. Ali pa kaj do pravičnosti? Na to se požvižgajo, da le ugodiš njihovim osebnim koristim. Nisem se hotel varati več. Če je človeštvo tako, tedaj izrabi njene slabosti, da dosežeš svoj visoki cilj, ki bi bil tudi njemu v korist, ki ga pa ne razume. Potrkal sem na neumnost in na lahkovernost ljudi. Na njihovo slo po užitkih, na njihove sebične želje. Vrata so se mi na stežaj odprla”
― Vladimir Bartol, quote from Alamut
“Why are you limping like that?' Nicholas demanded.
'I'm swaggering,' I informed him.
'You look like you're wearing a diaper.'
Charming. And I had a crush on this guy.
Wait.
I had a crush on this guy?
'Now what?' he asked. 'You're making weird faces.'
'Nothing,' I said quickly. 'Never mind.”
― Alyxandra Harvey, quote from My Love Lies Bleeding
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