Isana's Quotes

#1. Isana felt her throat tighten.
"We failed." Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly.
"We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference.

Jim Butcher

#2. What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#3. These creatures have destroyed our lands. Murdered our people." Isana lifted her chin. "Pay them for it."
When Antillus Raucus looked up, his eyes were hard, cold, and clear. "Watch me.

Jim Butcher

#4. You can tell a great deal about a person by looking at the people who share his life. Isana

Jim Butcher

#5. Open eyes are of little use when the mind behind them is closed.

Jim Butcher

#6. I know now why I stopped writing short stories. It was at the point when I recognised how difficult they were.

Brian Friel

#7. I hate what you represent."
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"Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact.
"Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the hands of those like you.

Jim Butcher

#8. What can I give you, Aislinn? Shall I weave flowers into your hair?"
He opened his hand, letting go of her hair. An iris blossom sat in the palm of his hand. "Shall I bring you necklaces of gold? Delicacies mortals can only dream of? I'll do all those things anyway. Don't waste your wish.

Melissa Marr

#9. I'll be waiting at the airport.'
'You just made my year' she said.
'You made my life.

Dennis Lehane

#10. From the contemplative point of view, being lost in thoughts of any kind, pleasant or unpleasant, is analogous to being asleep and dreaming. It's a mode of not knowing what is actually happening in the present moment. It is essentially a form of psychosis.

Sam Harris

#11. Sometimes you've just got to let an umpire know that you're not satisfied with his decision. That they've missed the play in your opinion. Not that it's going to do you any good, but you've got to let them know.

Tommy Lasorda

#12. Most people know who believes in them.

Johnny Hunt

#13. Men a simple life form. Where women go wrong is forgetting that.

Jack Dancer

#14. The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

Desmond Tutu

#15. The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.

Andy Goldsworthy

#16. Not every man in the Senate is some kind of masterful schemer, exerting all his energies to acquire more power and influence at the expense of all others." "No," Isana agreed. "Some of them are incompetent schemers.

Jim Butcher

#17. After Auschwitz, I no longer cry at funerals.

Charlotte Delbo