Dracanburh Quotes

#1. The woman with hair of flames knelt over me. She might have been pretty if not for the anger in every corner of her face. Emerald eyes glowed with almost seeping venom as her nostrils flared.
- Lord Tristan Dracanburh, Ethandun

Alexandra May

#2. There is no greater will on earth than the will to survive. These fine people, answering my father's call to arms, had the will in spades and droves.
- Lord Tristan Dracanburh, Ethandun

Alexandra May

#3. Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.

Eric Mackay

#4. After a sleepless night, the people in the street seem automatons. No one seems to breathe, to walk, Each looks as if he is worked by clockwork: nothing spontaneous; mechanical smiles, spectral gesticulations. Yourself a specter, how would you see others as alive?

Emil M. Cioran

#5. One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.

Michael Mandelbaum

#6. Anyone who reads, even one from the remote Southwest at the far end of an attenuated tradition, is to some extent a citizen of the world, and I had been a hungry reader all my life.

Wallace Stegner

#7. I completely and utterly rely on my mum. Without my mum, I would not be anywhere at all. I'd literally just be a couch potato.

Tom Holland

#8. It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties.

Christopher Hitchens

#9. You are turning me into what I never have been and never wanted to be, a nag, because you are not living up to your end of a very basic contract. Don't do that, it's not okay to do.

Gillian Flynn