Arcus Quotes

#1. As for this young Ali, one cannot but like him. A noble-minded creature, as he shows himself, now and always afterwards; full of affection, of fiery daring. Something chivalrous in him; brave as a lion; yet with a grace, a truth and affection worthy of Christian knighthood.

Edward Gibbon

#2. NO ADMISSION FOR ADMISSION.

Amit Abraham

#3. I said I didn't believe in the prophecies. I don't believe they all come true. I believe we always have choices. Even Sage can't tell us what is going to happen. Only what might happen. And sometimes prophecies are just wrong.

Elly Blake

#4. You don't know the effect your words have on me, Lady Firebrand. It took years to build up this ice. You will melt it and then I will be broken.

Elly Blake

#5. Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.

Anne Lamott

#6. If we all had names to suit us, you'd be called Thorn in My Backside. Or Plague of the Gods."I prickled at his scathing tone. "And you'd be Miserable Blockhead.""Is that the best you can do?""Give me time. I'm half frozen." "Perhaps your name should be Icy Tyrant. No, wait. Frigid Despot.

Elly Blake

#7. The understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies of his readers in the hardships he has capriciously invited.

Evelyn Waugh

#8. But Paris, all in all, isn't what it used o be, ever since that pencil sharpener, the Eiffel Tower, has been sticking up in the distance, visible from every angle.

Umberto Eco

#9. How handsome he must have been before he was burned. Heat flared over my skin. How handsome he was now.

Elly Blake