Daughter Of Smoke Bone Quotes

#1. It was sadness, lostness, and the worst thing about it was the way it seemed like a default - like it was there all the time, and all her other expressions were just an array of masks she used to cover it up.

Laini Taylor

#2. Oh, good, Pestilence is free, said Karou, heading towards the sculpture. Massive emperor and horse both wore gas masks, like every other statue in the place, and it had always put Karou in mind of the first horseman of the Apocalypse, Pestilence, sowing plaque with one outstretched arm.

Laini Taylor

#3. We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. We can never have enough of nature.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. Philip's words. Though the story was by now well known to him, still it held a powerful resonance. What he saw and heard was not merely a retelling of the Lord's coming, but rather the fulfillment of words written centuries before by their most revered prophet.

Davis Bunn

#5. At some stage in your life you need to stop fighting for others and look at who fights for you. Only then you will truly know who to cherish and who to fight for.

Albert Besselaar

#6. There was darkness, and monsters vast as worlds swam in it.

Laini Taylor

#7. My tiny scary friend is coming

Laini Taylor

#8. His lips made a grim twist that was like the joyless cousin of a smile.

Laini Taylor

#9. I wasn't good at sports and I needed a way to make girls like me.

John Rzeznik

#10. We need to abandon the economist's notion of the economy as a machine, with its attendant concept of equilibrium. A more helpful way of thinking about the economy is to imagine it as a living organism.

Paul Ormerod

#11. While exceptional employees don't seek conflict, they don't run away from it either. They're able to maintain their composure while presenting their positions calmly and logically. They're able to withstand personal attacks in pursuit of the greater goal and never use that tactic themselves.

Travis Bradberry

#12. Most men would rather be shot through with a broad-headed arrow than be described by you.

Neal Stephenson

#13. The reason stories have dramatic tension is because LIFE has dramatic tension.

Donald Miller

#14. We dreamed together of the world remade.

Laini Taylor

#15. Okay, this is going to be confusing, kid.-Amelia Pond to her younger self in the pandora box

Stephen Moffat

#16. Had been a year earlier. Looking back, it had been a year of growth. Paul's personality had enlarged, he'd gained further wisdom, if not salary,

Julia Child

#17. Make a firm decision: 'Whatever happens, I will be happy. I will be strong. God is always with me.'

Mata Amritanandamayi

#18. You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?

Laini Taylor

#19. He watched her with a hopeful, piercing scrutiny that made her tingle, she felt so ... seen.

Laini Taylor

#20. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!

Patricia Polacco