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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ef922c5 | Words are like breath," she said. "You say them and they're gone. But writing traps them. You could write down stories, poems." | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 1ae64b2 | a fool and his money are easily parted. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 95bc182 | What is an oath? A promise to serve a lord, but to Christians there is always a higher allegiance. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| f8f5330 | press, | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| c5a9436 | Does that girl work here?' Robbie asked, gesturing at the screen behind which Mary had disappeared. 'All her life,' Sir Giles said. 'You remember Mary, Thomas?' 'I tried to drown her when we were both children,' Thomas said. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 8f10c00 | The first stone, thrown by Hellgiver, crashed through the roof of a dyer's house close to St Brieuc's church and took off the heads of an English man-at-arms and the dyer's wife. A joke went through the garrison that the two bodies were so crushed together by the boulder that they would go on coupling throughout eternity. | war | Bernard Cornwell | |
| a5dbbf4 | You are sheep, they are wolves. Your blood will soak the hillsides, your skin will make saddles, your flesh will feed pigs! | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| dc30fb8 | Language is now my trade, boy, because I have become a skald.' 'A skald?' 'A scop, you would call me. A poet, a weaver of dreams, a man who makes glory from nothing and dazzles you with its making. And my job now is to tell this day's tale in such a way that men will never forget our great deeds. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| d6ef3a4 | Everything ends. Summer ends. Happiness ends. Days of joy are followed by days of sorrow. Even the gods will meet their end in the last battle of Ragnarok when all the evil of the world brings chaos and the sun will turn dark, the waters will drown the homes of men, and the great beamed hall of Valhalla will burn to ashes. Everything ends. I drew Serpent Breath and walked towards the scouts. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 4d75abb | What do we look for in a lord? Strength, generosity, hardness and success, and why should a man not be proud of those things? Show me a humble warrior and I will see a corpse. Alfred preached humility, he even pretended to it, loving to appear in church with bare feet and prostrating himself before the altar, but he never possessed true humility. He was proud, and men feared him because of it, and men should fear a lord. They should fear hi.. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 29e4f2e | You've got dirt on your forehead," I said, "so has he," I pointed to the other priest. "Because it's Good Friday, lord. The day our Lord died." "Is that why they call it good?" | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 091d9cd | Cowardice is always with us, and bravery, the thing that provokes the poets to make their songs about us, is merely the will to overcome the fear. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 066513d | Ideas are powerful things; we should take more care with them. I know there are some who would disagree - those who think ideas are like food they can taste and then spit out if they don't like it. But ideas are stronger than that. You can get a taste of an idea inside you, and the next think you know, it won't leave. Until you do something about it | Rene Denfeld | ||
| 5a9c393 | Everyone was harmless until you knew better. | Rene Denfeld | ||
| 331db2f | Are the stories we tell ourselves true or based on what we dream them to be? | Rene Denfeld | ||
| 8e758b1 | guess?" Naomi sank into a chair. "Jerome," she" | Rene Denfeld | ||
| fc69c21 | Not everyone likes a ceiling," her mommy said. "Some of us like the sky." | Rene Denfeld | ||
| 91bb417 | Her entire life she had been running from terrifying shadows she could no longer see--and in escape she ran straight into life. In the years since, she had discovered the sacrament of life did not demand memory. Like a leaf that drank from the morning dew, you didn't question the morning sunrise or the sweet taste on your mouth. You just drank. | Rene Denfeld | ||
| 12632b6 | The land beyond rose into dizzying mountains. Far across the way a frozen waterfall resembled a charging lion. The trees were shrouded in white, a vision of the heavens. | Rene Denfeld | ||
| 126d375 | Outside a pale dawn threaded the sky with silver. | Rene Denfeld | ||
| 78cf862 | In the years since, she had discovered the sacrament of life did not demand memory. | Rene Denfeld | ||
| 611d839 | Their footsteps sound like the soft hush of rain over the stone floors. | Rene Denfeld | ||
| caa3c5d | If you understand what makes him tick-what is magic for him- then you can understand anyone | imagination magic relationship understanding | Rene Denfeld | |
| c9caccf | A farm without stock, a home without children. The world here was dying. | Rene Denfeld | ||
| 11da748 | You can get a taste of an idea inside you, and the next thing you know, it won't leave. Until you do something about it. | Rene Denfeld | ||
| fd500e5 | Remember when we used to share our secrets?" he asked. The moon captured a handsome face, full of longing. His dark hair brushed his shoulders. "The Stone," she laughed. "I loved you then. I loved you no matter where you came from. No - scratch that." His voice floated up to her. "I loved you because you came from wherever it was. It must have been a magic place, to produce you." | Rene Denfeld | ||
| db3a14c | Naomi felt very small, hiking through this endless dark forest. Fresh snow dusted the ground. | Rene Denfeld | ||
| 962bb8f | It is usually people who pride themselves on their lack of sexism who are the first to insinuate that I box , as one woman acquaintance said, "to get male attention." That would have to be the most painful and time-consuming method to do so ever invented." | Rene Denfeld | ||
| 4a9062d | The ideal of maternal instinct can act as a barrier to acquiring tool women need to cope with children. If you really love your kids, the text of public conversation to mothers reads, you won't hit them. End of discussion. Who needs tools when instincts are supposedly doing your job for you? | Rene Denfeld | ||
| 8f1e9ea | After a time, it seemed that the world inside the books became my world. So when I thought of my childhood, it was dandelion wine and ice cream on a summer porch, like Ray Bradbury, and catching catfish with Huck Finn. My own memories receded and the book memories became the real memories, far more than the outside, far more even than in here. B | Rene Denfeld | ||
| e9bcedd | Stop thinking that you have to know everything to understand it. | Rene Denfeld | ||
| 18a7cfd | How odd it is, that the dead weigh more than the living. You would think it would be the opposite, but it isn't. I think it is because souls give bodies lightness and air. When the soul leaves, the body has nothing left and is desperate to return to the earth. | Rene Denfeld | ||
| 723ea63 | Each child she found was a molecule, a part of herself still remaining in the scary world she had left behind. | Rene Denfeld | ||
| 08f75b6 | People try to make names for things they don't understand. | true-story | Rene Denfeld | |
| fd00f58 | This is something I know: no matter how far you have run, no matter how long you have been lost, it is never too late to be found. | Rene Denfeld | ||
| 88e66e4 | Love wasn't about numbers, Naomi realized then. It wasn't about selling yourself or wanting anything in return. It wasn't about hoping for safety. It was just-- That purr. | Rene Denfeld | ||
| c24dbaa | Are you trying to talk your way into my bed?" she asked, her voice thick with emotion. "No." His voice sounded warm. "I'm trying to talk my way into your heart." | Rene Denfeld | ||
| 21c1e49 | Sweet as sugar. And then he hardened. I can't 'splain it another way. He was like sugar in a jar that hardens. And after a while you take it out, and it is one rock-solid lump. | Rene Denfeld | ||
| af57350 | You don't have to be homosexual to be a fag these days. | J.J. Connolly | ||
| 1d22341 | What was true then is true now. Have a plan. Stick to it. | J.J. Connolly | ||
| 822a74f | analysts were more likely to maintain their star performance if they worked with high-quality colleagues in their teams and departments. The star analysts relied on knowledgeable colleagues for information and new ideas. The star investment analysts and the cardiac surgeons depended heavily on collaborators who knew them well or had strong skills of their own. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| b3f04dc | Pero, spesso, quando ero in ufficio, rilassato e prigioniero, sovraqualificato e climatizzato, avevo il sospetto che la condizione dell'ape operaia di basso livello fosse ingiustamente deprecata dai sostenitori della giustizia sociale e del potenziale imano. Certo le paghe erano basse, i benefit inesistenti, le possibilita di fare carriera discutibili, e l'indifferenza aziendale verso i nostri talenti nascosti praticamente assoluta. Ma qual.. | lavoro | Benjamin Kunkel | |
| 4ff76f0 | Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed. | Benjamin Kunkel | ||
| 9840879 | matchers: their core values emphasize fairness, equality, and reciprocity. When takers violate these principles, matchers in their networks believe in an eye for an eye, so they want to see justice served. | Adam M. Grant |