Akkarin's Quotes

#1. Ranel had said that the murderer wore a ring with a red gemstone. Looking at Akkarin's hands, she was almost disappointed to see they were bare. Not even a mark to hint that a ring might have been worn regularly. His fingers were long and elegant, yet masculine ...

Trudi Canavan

#2. In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.

Albert Camus

#3. Language is what eases the pain of living with other people, language is what makes the wounds come open again.

Anne Carson

#4. Her smile was always his favorite part.

Priscilla Glenn

#5. Deciding not to run away is a crucial first step.

Suzanne Collins

#6. There is great variation in brain power all the way from Einstien on one hand to Sarah Palin on the other.

Richard Dawkins

#7. The idiot that had designed the self-checkout lane was an idiot.

Benjamin Wallace

#8. Akkarin: I watched the first woman I loved die. I dont think I can survive losing the second.
Sonea: I love you too.

Trudi Canavan

#9. But as I witnessed what Dakova was capable of, I cared less about what the Guild did and didn't allow. He did not need black magic to perform evil. I saw him do things with his bare hands that I will never forget.

Trudi Canavan

#10. So long as men are compassionate to such a degree that they cannot hear a fly struggling in a spider's web without emotion it can never be reasonably maintained that it is their natural impulse to wound and kill the dumb animals, or to butcher one another in what is called the field of honour.

John Newton

#11. Painting contains a divine force which ... makes the dead seem almost alive.

Leon Battista Alberti

#12. I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.

Jack Scalia

#13. Dedicate your life to a cause that inspires you and also greatly serves others. Master plan your life. If you don't fill your day with high priorities, it will automatically become filled with low priorities.

John Frederick Demartini

#14. Buffalo Soldiers in Italy: Black Americans in World War II

Charles M. Blow

#15. Strange. Half my years afraid of life. The other half, afraid of death. Always some kind of afraid.

Ray Bradbury

#16. Everything Ticketmaster stands for is what we're fighting against. They're just a small cog in a machine where the artist is at the bottom.

Jeff Ament