“The error was not yours, Somerled," Eyvind said quietly, moving to the doorway. "It was mine. I failed to teach you the one lesson you could not do without: how to be a man.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Wolfskin
“Now he understood what it was to be a man: that it was to be weak as well as strong, to be foolish sometimes and wise sometimes, to know love as well as to kill. And he had learned that there were other paths for him, other gods who called in the deep places of the earth, in the lap of wavelets on the shore, in the breath of the wind. He had learned that there were other kinds of courage. He knew, with deep certainty, that the islands held a new path for him. He need only move forward and find it.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Wolfskin
“I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Wolfskin
“The god honors the faithful. And who is more true than a man who keeps his oath, though it breaks his heart?”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Wolfskin
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“I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, quote from The Annotated Lolita
“Oswin, zo is het wel genoeg,' zei Balam. 'Straks schrikt hij nog van zijn eigen schaduw.'
'Misschien is het tijd dat we allemaal wat sneller schrikken.”
― James Rollins, quote from Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow
“I refuse to cut the joy from the lives of others in fear I might lose my own. Only the former is definite, and may be controlled. The latter is up to fate.”
― Penelope Fletcher, quote from Venomous
“С такива върхове на пръстите жената като че ли прекрачваше обсега на обикновено човешкото. Или може би преследваше самата женственост? Раковина, огряна от багрите в нея, окъпано в роса венчелистче – хрумваха ми най-очевидните сравнения. Но същевременно не се сещах са никаква раковина, за никакво венчелистче, чийто цвят да прилича на тях. Бяха ноктите върху пръстите на момичето, несравними с нищо друго на света. По-бистри и по-прозрачни от най-тънката и фина раковина, и от най-деликатното листенце, те като че ли съдържаха роса на трагедия. Всеки ден и всяка нощ цялата ѝ енергия отиваше да шлифова тази трагична женска красота. Тази красота проникна в моята самота. И вероятно самотата ми покапа по ноктите на момичето и ги превърна в капчици трагедия.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, quote from House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories
“Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.”
― Dante Alighieri, quote from Dante's Divine Comedy Set: Three-Volume Set
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