Top 48 Elizabeth May Quotes
#1. What does that make me, when a faery is capable of more humanity than I am?
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#2. I hold a vision of this blue green planet, safe and in balance. At the end of the Fossil Fuel Era, we are emerging to a new reality. We are ready to make the next leap - as momentous as abolishing slavery or giving women the vote.
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#3. Aithinne smiles. "You know," she says thoughtfully, "your hair rather looks like an octopus." Then, as if to reassure me: "I love octopi."
And Aithinne is obviously a bit barmy, but nobody's perfect.
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#4. We have to do what we have to do. Miracles happen. The life force of this planet is very strong. Dandelions poke through sidewalks. We don't know enough to give up. We only know enough to know that we have to try to change the course of human events.
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#5. Damnation, Kam." Kiaran jerks me back up when I start to fall forward. I'm not sure I can walk. "You're bleeding all over the place."
My voice comes out in a croak. "I'm not happy about it either.
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#6. Sometimes the memories we cling hardest to are the ones that hurt us the most.
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#7. It's so quiet out here, only ocean waves crashing around us. It's these moments when I realise that my time with Kiaran is such a fragile thing. At any moment, my human life could end and he'd still be as unchanging as the sea.
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#9. As human rights throughout the world continue to be abused, Raoul Wallenberg stands as a courageous example that should inspire us all,
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#10. A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren.
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#11. Perfect." I open the ornithopter door. "We've rendered Dona mostly blind and partially disguised her as an old woman for the sake of a bloody walk in a public park.
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#12. You should never even ask if a campaign is winnable, because the question is not answerable. No-one can predict the course of the future. Time and time again I have seen completely unforeseeable shifts in the tide of events that result in campaign victory.
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#13. You were right, you know. Ours is a talent wasted on the useless. - Gavin, to Kiaran
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#14. I've changed my mind. Stop inadequately playing human," I say. "Drop her hand and step away. Take a very big step.
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#15. If they had built the Energy East pipeline to transport beer, we'd be okay.
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#16. Is Stephen Harper using the imagined fear of widespread security threats to score political points before the next election?
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#17. I admit to being somewhat unclear on the function of human tears," she says. "So we're sad about this? Should I menace someone?
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#18. Derrick... Have you ever heard of a Falconer?"
...
"Wherever did you hear that?
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#19. It's all right if you smell bad," Derrick says serenely. "You're still my favorite.
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#20. He's in my heart and I'm in his. And I think it's going to destroy us both.
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#21. Those who take action have a disproportionate impact. The power of one is to move many.
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#22. Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built he Titanic.
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#23. We have to find the seal before that happens," I tell him. "Reactivate it somehow."
...
"You're the only one who can... Last night you asked me a question. Do you remember what it was?"
"What is a Falconer?" I whisper.
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#24. If you have never taken the train across Canada, you really should put it on your life list ... Meanwhile, I get to sit back and watch for moose from the dome car as we roll through the lake-dotted vastness of the boreal forest.
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#25. What the hell is wrong with your pixie? - Gavin
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#26. You thought you'd never see me again. You loooove me and you miiiissed me. You--Holy hell. Are those tears? Are you crying?"
"I just have something in my eye."
"You're right. No tears here, either. Definitely the rain. It's really wet out here.
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#27. I will never shrink from speaking truth to power,
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#28. You're back! You're alive!... Such a magnificent murderous glare you have... I love it. Teach me. - Aithinne
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#29. I hate this," I mutter.
"Really? I'm having a grand time," Aithinne says brightly.
"That's because you're barmy."
"I believe you just mispronounced 'magnificent'.
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#30. Aithinne grins. "One day I pray I'll meet a woman who engages me in combat as a way to say, I love you. Be still me heart."
... "A woman, you say?"
Her laugh is short. "Did you think Kadamach was the only one whose weakness was ladies in armor? If you weren't his, I'd ask you to be mine.
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#31. I'm immortal. You consider the future because one day you'll die. I don't have that uncertainty." - Kiaran
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#32. I'm going to let my friends in the other parties fight over the turf at the cutting edge of the status quo.
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#33. There is not enough tea in the world to calm me.
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#34. I have to remove your . . . whatever this is.'
'Nightdress,' I say, my cheek against the pillow. 'It's from Paris. You've been alive how long and still can't identify a woman's clothing?
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#35. There are two exits out of this room. Choose one."
Derrick chuckles. "What a glorious comeuppance.
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#36. When Dante described the circles of Hell, he clearly forgot the one where a hungry pixie sits on one's shoulder for eternity.
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#37. Kam," Kiaran says, his eyes never leaving Derrick. "Control your pixie." "Control me?" A wee blade is suddenly in Derrick's hand. "I'm going to gut you, you sonofa -
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#38. I feel. I feel. Strong and untouchable and capable. An exquisite glow of joy fills me up and extinguishes my anger. For this instant, I am whole again. I am not broken or empty. The shadow-self inside me that compels me to kill is silent. I am unburdened. I am complete.
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#39. But just as the orchestra begins to play, an odd taste sweeps across my tongue from front to back. Like a volatile mixture of sulfur and ammonia, hot and burning as it trickles down the inside of my throat. A vile swear almost escapes my lips. There's a faery here.
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#40. Forgiveness isn't something given... It's something earned. What could I do to earn it, Aileana? Nothing. - Sorcha
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#41. Lady Cassilis's jaw drops. "I beg your pardon?"
"Was I not clear? Get. The hell. Out. Of my home.
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#42. I glare at him. 'As a figment of my imagination, I demand you stop insulting me.' I press my fingernails into the grooves of the bite-marks again and shut my eyes. 'And go away.
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#43. You take care of my bairn."
He blinks. "I beg your pardon?"
"My ornithopter.
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#44. Kiaran left a mark on me. It's not physical, not like Lonnrach's. It's as if when my memories were emptied, my mind filled with pieces of Kiaran, feelings that kept me sane in the mirrored room. He did it without realizing and I let him without realizing. God, how I wish I hadn't.
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#45. He loved you so much that when you died, he might as well have died with you.
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#46. You did not just compare me to a cow."
"No, no. I compared your expression to one. Cows truly are majestic creatures, aren't they? - Aithinne
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#47. It was all battles, fights and court. Humans are far more exciting. You have colourful swearwords and cake-- - Aithinne
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#48. The daughter of a marquess does not charge out of a ballroom. The daughter of a marquess does not abandon her partner in the middle of a dance.
The daughter of a marquess does not hunt faeries.
- The Falconer
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