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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 08b7a18 | There's no secret to winning. Act boldly when you need to, and be cautious when you must. | Kate Elliott | ||
| 57f7c3f | We are none of us one thing alone and unchanging. We are not static, or at rest. Just as a city or a prince's court or a lineage is many people in one, so is a person many people within one, always unfinished and always like a river's current flowing onward ever changing toward the ocean that is greater than all things combined. | Kate Elliott | ||
| 8e0814e | To withhold trust until there is no doubt is not trust. | Kate Elliott | ||
| 5bb4831 | That reminds me of a song," said Emilia. The women laughed; the men groaned. But the fire was blazing and the night was long, and folk will want entertainment after the tedium of a day's work. Emilia's song detailed the amorous adventures of a water horse who fell in love--if love was the right word--with a series of young women who passed beside the lake in which the creature dwelled and from which he emerged in the form of a good-looking .. | Kate Elliott | ||
| 861229c | How can it be men would put up with such an arrangement?' 'Why do some people demand it of women but not of men? It is just another way of doing things. As my father would have said, folk will have their customs according to their nature and their surroundings. | cold-magic feminism kate-elliott sort-of | Kate Elliott | |
| dc98e8d | I thought scornfully. I wished he were before me. I wished I could personally flout him and his busy searchers, and make him look like the fool he was. And watch the reaction, and walk away laughing. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| d2939fb | Know that we never have to walk in darkness. Even when we get into dark times or dark situations, God's light is always there to be found! | god life light quotes | Stormie Omartian | |
| 616849b | Ik ben blij met jullie gezelschap, Jager. Soms ben ik zo lang met die paarden alleen dat ik begin te denken dat ik er ook een wordt.' Zonder erbij na te denken greep hij in de mand met appelen en nam een flinke hap - net als Trek zojuist gedaan had. Halt keek hem aan, een wenkbrauw opgetrokken. 'Misschien zijn we nog net op tijd gekomen. | John Flanagan | ||
| 9f89a21 | In a cafe, order something, then ask the waiter for the Wi-Fi ("wee-fee") password ("mot de passe"; moh duh pahs)." | Rick Steves | ||
| 3f02763 | He loathes what he has left behind him, and it is natural to guess that, in his first years of priesthood, his religious nature slept; that he became a priest and notary merely that he "might eat a morsel of bread"; and that real "conviction" never was his till his studies of Protestant controversialists, and also of St. Augustine and the Bible, and the teaching of Wishart, raised him from a mundane life. " | Andrew Lang | ||
| 5f20436 | I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world. | Anthony Trollope | ||
| e3a2798 | Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear | Anthony Trollope | ||
| eb9c1c8 | Not one of the passerby showed the least interest in the proceedings. I wondered if I had missed yet another chance at escape, but if I did yell for help, who knew what the partisanship of the Lumm merchants was? I might very well have gotten my mouth gagged for my pains. This did not help my spirits any, for now that the immediate discomforts had eased, I realized again that I was sick. How could I effect an escape when I had as much spunk.. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 1fcf5ca | But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it? | Anthony Trollope | ||
| d80c137 | Of course there was a Great House at Allington. How otherwise should there have been a Small House? | Anthony Trollope | ||
| 1a90c2a | All I can report is that I felt pretty sick, nearly as sick as I'd been when I fell into Ara's chickenyard. Sick at heart as well, for I knew there was no escape for Meliara Astiar after all; therefore I resolved that my last job was to summon enough presence of mind to die well. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| c283928 | It had happened before she was born, this wholesale discarding of American industry, this switch from a culture that made things of value to a culture that consumed things of dubious merit. She'd grown up in the absence, in other people's memory of a dream so fragile it had probably been doomed from the moment of conception. If there had ever been a social contract between the country and its citizens, it was long gone now, save the Hobbesi.. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 3bd4a6f | The only thing to do was read. Hermit Jim had exactly thirty-eight books. She had inventoried them. There were fairly recent novels by Patrick O'Brian, Dan Simmons, Stephen King, and Dennis Lehane, and some books that she supposed were philosophy by writers like Thoreau. There were classics whose names seemed familiar to her: Oliver Twist, The Sea Wolf, The Big Sleep, Ivanhoe. | Michael Grant | ||
| 6e534dd | In my mind I saw, clearly, that straight-backed figure on the dapple-gray horse, his long black cloak slung back over the animal's haunches, his plumed helm of command on his head. With either phenomenal courage or outright arrogance he had ignored the possibility of our arrows, the crowned sun stitched on his tunic gleaming in the noonday light as he directed the day's battle. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 80c0a13 | Instead my inner eye kept returning to the memory of our people running before a mass of orderly brown-and-green-clad soldiers, overseen by a straight figure in a black cloak riding back and forth along a high ridge. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 3440d86 | Pero isang malaking tulong sa faith at prayer ang ma-realize na kapag walang paggabay mula sa langit kapag gumagawa ng desisyon, hindi ito nangangahulugan na ang Diyos o ikaw ay nabigo. Kadalasan, kabaligtaran ito - alam ng Diyos na mas lalago ka sa paggawa ng desisyon kaysa sa pagtanggap lang ng memo mula sa langit. | translated-quotes | John Ortberg | |
| 8956fe5 | She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere. | Anthony Trollope | ||
| 2b9c204 | But I think the time has come for a different perspective, one that is innate in you. It is a problem, I have come to realize, with our Court upbringing. No one, including Elenet, has the gift you have of looking every person you encounter in the face and accepting the person behind the status. We all were raised to see servants and merchants as faceless as we pursued the high strategy. I'm half convinced this is part of the reason why the .. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 1aa0a89 | I thought about myself showing up on his trail, put there by servants who were--I realized now--doing their very best to throw us together, but with almost disastrous results. It was only his own faith that saved that situation, a faith I hadn't shared. I looked at him, and again saw that assessing glance. "The throne won't be ordered until you give the word. You need time to decide if this is the life you want," he said. "Of all the women .. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| d3eda0e | I remained cheery, too, as if the universe had slipped into a kind of dream existence. I was by now far beyond mere tiredness, so that nothing seemed real. In fact, until I topped a rise and saw the twenty wagons stretched out in a formidable line directly below me, the worst reaction I had to rain, to stumbles, to my burning eyes, was a tendency to snicker. The wagons sobered me. I stayed where I was, squarely in the center of the muddy r.. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 068c1c8 | If the Prodigy Mozart had any notion how much torment he might cause people who had done no harm to him, he surely would have confined himself to stickball with his friends." "I believe that particular piece was" | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 8d06768 | I now had fresh subjects to think about, of course, but it is always easier to contemplate how lucky one is than about past betrayal and murder--and I knew my mother would want my happiness above anything. Who can ever know what turns the spark into flame? Vidanric's initial interest in me might well have been kindled by the fact that he saw my actions as courageous, but the subsequent discovery of passion, and the companionship of mind tha.. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 8d1eccb | Who can ever know what turns the spark into flame? | Sherwood Smith | ||
| b7cabce | Last question, why are you riding alone? Wouldn't things be more effective with your army?" "I move fastest alone," he said. "And my own people are in place, and have been for some time." I thought of Nessaren--and the fact that I hadn't seen her around Athanarel for weeks. "When I want them," he said, reaching into the pouch at his belt, "I will summon them with this." And he held up something that glowed blue briefly: the summons-stone I .. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 1a713ff | the stubborn little countess--so unlike anyone Vidanric had ever met--trampled her determined, well-meaning way not only over his plans, but his thoughts. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| f6d523a | Dun came to realize that a man whose entire purpose for living is to command a war will not want to spend his life waiting for its possibility. He was going to have one, and he was going to see to it--after all, it made military sense--that he would have it on his own terms, the ones with which he expected to win | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 2ef4732 | Is politics just another word for injustice? | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 65aac57 | It is a shame that so few have the time or inclination for scholarship these days. There is much entertainment to be afforded in perusing the mistakes of our forbears. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| cf995e2 | The throne was empty, and above it hung only the ancient flag of Remalna, tattered in places from age. Galdran's banners were, of course, gone. No one was on the dais. Just below it, side by side in fine chairs, sat the Prince and Princess. At their feet Shevraeth knelt formally on white cushions before a long carved table. He now wore white and silver with blue gemstones on his tunic and in his braided hair. I thought, though he was nowh.. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| a87285e | The definitive guide for beginning one's own exciting tomato odyssey. --Chef Claud Mann, host of Dinner & a Movie on TBS (from the Foreword) | Scott Daigre | ||
| 7891240 | So you want to know if I'll pay for it?" He shook his head. "I want to know, my lady, what you will do with the information." My first thought was that the Marquise would probably make any servant disappear who spoke thus with her. But I had given Azmus the right. He loved a challenge, this I knew, but he also loved the kingdom. When I first took charge of Tlanth's accounting books, I had discovered that Azmus had been paid only sporadicall.. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 0e59c23 | Before I ate or drank I had to find out who that rider was. I stepped into the common room, scanning the few people seated on cushions at the low, rough tables. They all had gray, brown, or blue cloaks hung behind them, or hats. No dark cloaks or helms. So I wandered farther inside and encountered a young woman about my age. "Hot punch? Stew?" she offered, wiping her hands on her apron. "My companion came in just ahead of me. Wearing a helm.. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 28547e1 | As I trod down the hall, I made and discarded plausible excuses. When I reached the tapestry I decided against speaking at all. I'd just take a quick peek, and if the livery was Merindar, then I'd have to hire someone to ride back and warn the Renselaeuses. I pulled my soggy cloak up around my eyes, stuck out my gloved finger, and poked gently at the edge of the tapestry. Remember the surmise I recorded on my arrival at the Residence that .. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 76850f5 | I am trying," he said with great care, "to ascertain what your place is in the events about to transpire, and to act accordingly. From whom did you get your information?" The world seemed to lurch again, but this time it was not my vision. A terrible sense of certainty pulled at my heart and mind as I realized what he was striving so heroically not to say--nevertheless, what he meant. He thought I was on the other side." | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 2f50280 | By the hundreds, from all directions, the Hill Folk had come to Athanarel. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 13aaa10 | the one that whupped Galdran Merindar?" Unbidden, Shevraeth's voice spoke inside my head: "You have never lied to me..." I thought desperately, And for a brief moment I envisioned myself snarling Except it wasn't going to stop them; I could see it in their eyes and in the way the woman gripped her sword. "No," I said. "He knocked me off my horse. But I'd taken an oath, so I had to do my best." I drew in a shaky breath. "I know I can't f.. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 5f9c5f6 | the one that whupped Galdran Merindar?" Unbidden, Shevraeth's voice spoke inside my head: "You have never lied to me..." I thought desperately, And for a brief moment I envisioned myself snarling Except it wasn't going to stop them; I could see it in their eyes and in the way the woman gripped her sword. "No," I said. "He knocked me off my horse. But I'd taken an oath, so I had to do my best." I drew in a shaky breath. "I know I can't f.. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| 6668b16 | Fall in love with heart, not head, to trouble you're led. Fall in love with heart and mind, then true love you'll find. | Sherwood Smith | ||
| e2ee7c8 | Shevraeth and I did not speak again; he kept working through his mail, and I, still tired and cold, curled up on a cushion and slipped into uncomfortable sleep. Waking to the sound of Bran's cheery voice and a bustle and rustling of people, I got up, feeling horribly stiff. Though I'd tried to stay with exercise through sword practice, I hadn't ridden that hard all winter, and every muscle protested. It did my spirits no good at all to see .. | Sherwood Smith |