Eldric Quotes

#1. How many bones did he set?" I cared about it much less than they did. It's my Florence Nightingale calm, I suppose.
There was a pause.
"Twenty-seven," said Father.
There was a question mark in that pause. "How many bones are in the hand?"
Another pause.
"Twenty-seven," said Eldric.

Franny Billingsley

#2. You don't mind when he stares at you." Cecil jerked his head toward Eldric.
"He doesn't stare," I said. "He looks.

Franny Billingsley

#3. Our English monarchs are so unimaginative," said Eldric. "They execute people in such tediously conventional ways.

Franny Billingsley

#4. The problem I have telling my secret', said Eldric, 'is that it's a secret.

Franny Billingsley

#5. You could write your way into happiness. It might not be the happiness you'd experience if Eldric pushed Leanne from a cliff, but there's a firefly glimmer in writing something that would please Rose.

Franny Billingsley

#6. Briony scared?" said Eldric. "I've never seen anyone less scared in my life. She has nerves of iron.

Franny Billingsley

#7. Eldric wore his lazy lion's smile. He didn't mind what he was called. He was a sticks-and-stones sort of person.

Franny Billingsley

#8. Blast Cecil!" said Eldric. "You have my permission," I said.

Franny Billingsley

#9. A toast at your wedding, perhaps?" said Eldric.
"I shall never get married," I said. "But I do like champagne.

Franny Billingsley

#10. Boxing's not that straightforward," said Eldric. "You can practice and practice, but the real experience will always be different. Lots of things are like that, actually.

Franny Billingsley

#11. It wasn't quite a question. It was more of an invitation to tell him whatever I chose. Eldric game me a choice, and it was this that made me want to tell him everything.

Franny Billingsley

#12. I am entirely well," said Eldric, "which has Dr. Rannigan exploring first one theory, then another, trying to understand. But not being a man of science, I don't care about understanding. I simply want to go outside and break a few windows.

Franny Billingsley

#13. Should I ever again sink into illness, I'm sure I'll remember Eldric. I'll remember he cared for me. I'll remember that someone had at least taken the time to touch my face.

Franny Billingsley

#14. Agitators were dispatched to Coalwood in droves and, very soon, wildcat strikes were hitting the mine every

Homer Hickam

#15. The whole foot is a document of motion, inscribed by repeated action. Babies - from those first foetal footfalls, the kneading of sole against womb-wall, turning themselves like astronauts in black space - have already creased their soles by the time they emerge into the world.

Robert Macfarlane

#16. I was in the category of people who thought that his [Bernie Sanders ]campaign was worthy, even noble and it would push Hillary [Clinton] to the left.

Tom Hayden

#17. We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don't know the probability that a planet develops life.

Stephen Hawking

#18. What we clearly need is experimentation with market reforms and private delivery options [in health care].

Stephen Harper

#19. Aikido is the Way and Principle of harmonizing Heaven, Earth and Man.

Morihei Ueshiba

#20. Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.

Barry Ritholtz

#21. We are home to each other now.

Sara Sheridan

#22. I have taken a terrible beating from the truth and feel tamed, wise and desperate, as if I had taken a short route to wisdom through a mirror, and cut myself badly on it as I passed through.

Derek Raymond

#23. To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights.

Clare Short

#24. Animatronic therapy! Recommended by six out of seven crazy people.

Scott Cawthon

#25. The mass of the people regard as profound only him who suggests pungent contradictions of the general idea. In ratiocination, not less than in literature, it is the epigram which is the most immediately and the most universally appreciated. In both, it is of the lowest order of merit.

Edgar Allan Poe

#26. God punishes sins, but the world I see only punishes lack of foresight and blunders.

Emilia Pardo Bazan

#27. If you believe that your needs were met because you prayed, then you make God the parent who reacts only when the baby cries. Matthew 6:25-34.

Felix Wantang

#28. I am both ever evolving and ever decaying.

Stephanie Kuehn