Amaxon Quotes

#1. I am Amaxon Corazon Junia Principia Delgado the Third, and I bent over my meal and wept luxurious tears into my green banana porridge. It was a perfect decoction, and it now would not satisfy me.

Nalo Hopkinson

#2. When you accept a lord's meat and mead, all you do reflects on him. Always do more than he expects of you, never less. Never flinch at any task or hardship. And above all, never shame the lord you serve.

George R R Martin

#3. The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century ... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today.

John F. Kennedy

#4. I am a student of comparative religion, but whatever I read, you scratch a little bit and underneath is the oneness. You call it different names, yes, according to the time, according to the place, according to the people, but it is all one.

Irina Tweedie

#5. There's a lot of days where you feel forgotten.

Billy Corgan

#6. It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book from the children's point of view.

Michael Nyqvist

#7. Rule was still personal, deriving from the fief of land and oath of homage. Not citizen to state but vassal to lord was the bond that underlay political structure.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#8. That was one of the things he loved about me, my resilience. And one of the things I loved about him - his ferocity. The way he took what he wanted, and he wanted me. Turning

Skye Warren

#9. If I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.

Patrick Rothfuss

#10. There is a newly coined word in the English language for the moment when the person we're with whips out their BlackBerry or answers that cell phone, and all of a sudden we don't exist. The word is 'pizzled': it's a combination of puzzled and pissed off.

Daniel Goleman

#11. Because this was what Ove had learned: if one didn't have anything to say, one had to find something to ask. If there was one thing that made people forget to dislike one, it was when they were given the opportunity to talk about themselves.

Fredrik Backman

#12. Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.

Raymond Chandler