Alarkling Quotes

#1. The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.

Isaac Barrow

#2. Toxic thoughts leave no room for truth to flourish. And in the absence of truth, lies reign. Spend some time soaking in your favorite verses from Scripture tonight. The more we read God's truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we'll spend contemplating untruths and toxic thoughts.

Lysa TerKeurst

#3. Fight me as long as you're able.
You will find I have far more practice with eternity

Leigh Bardugo

#4. You don't want to be doing this.
This is the only thing I want to be doing

Leigh Bardugo

#5. Yesterday is history, but if you don't learn from your past mistakes you will continue to make the same mistakes. Tomorrow isn't a mystery. Go after your goals with every breathe you take, and the future is far from being a mystery. Today isn't a gift. You have to earn it every day.

Steve Kaufman

#6. Will you say it?

"Aleksander"

His grin faded and his grey eyes seemed to flicker.

"Again."

"Aleksander

Leigh Bardugo

#7. You were meant to be my balance Aline.
You are the only person in the world who might rule with me, who might keep my powers in check

Leigh Bardugo

#8. Every time someone gives you a formula for what you should be and what you should do, you should know they're giving you a pair of handcuffs.

Junot Diaz

#9. I am ancient Alina.
I know things about power that you can barely guess

Leigh Bardugo

#10. I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don't have names.

Helen Oyeyemi

#11. I guess the drinking and the drugs are interesting to me because the way we use them and our society uses them, we kind of manufacture highs and lows.

Craig Finn

#12. I remember talking to Alex Ferguson about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown], and he said: "Why doesn't Tony just get rid of him?" But if you sack someone in football, they can't turn up to training the next day. In politics they're still on the pitch. Gordon would still have been a big player.

Alastair Campbell

#13. I know what you thought, what you always thought of me.
It's so much easier that way, isn't it?

Leigh Bardugo

#14. As a father, he was generous. More or less. The "less" was because he never gave me what I wanted. He gave me only what he wanted me to have. I found this was often true with philanthropy and with love. The giver's desire and fulfillment played an important role.

Monique Truong

#15. A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.

Watchman Nee

#16. I want you to know my name.
The name I was given, not the title I took for myself.
Will you have it?

"Yes"

"Aleksander

Leigh Bardugo

#17. Do you think I could have come to you again and again, if you had been less alone?
You called me and I answered

Leigh Bardugo

#18. Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about.

Haruki Murakami

#19. I will stip away all that you know, all that you love....
Until you have no shelter byt me

Leigh Bardugo

#20. I sought Morozova amplifiers for you Alina, so that we can rule as equals

Leigh Bardugo