Istidraj Quotes

#1. My nightly craft is winged in white, a dragon of night dark sea.
Swift born, dream bound and rudderless, her captain and crew are me.
We've sailed a hundred sleeping tides where no seaman's ever been
And only my white-winged craft and I know the wonders we have seen.

Anne McCaffrey

#2. I came here to conquer you. And here I stay, a willing prisoner of your heart.

Susan Wiggs

#3. Dying felt like being tickled. It felt like tiny fingers running across my body in a dark world where it was okay to laugh loudly and badly.

R.K. Ryals

#4. No, she doesn't look like she's from anywhere near Central, does she? You a dirt-muncher too, newbie, fresh off the farm? Or are you more of a river rat?"
"Why?" Rosie said. "You looking for lost relatives?"
Gillian snorted and San's face became an angry shade of puce.

Lara Morgan

#5. You are so close, and I can't reach you.

David Levithan

#6. I guess I feel like grief is this huge part of everything," I say in a burst. "But you're supposed to act like it's not.

Meg Wolitzer

#7. If your cat falls out of a tree, go indoors to laugh.

Pat Hitchcock

#8. Those heavily invested in the status quo had difficulty thinking outside of it - and were often tainted by it.

Daniel Suarez

#9. His favourite entertainments were intellectual rather than social; he went to public lectures and visited the observatory, the theatre and the opera. 'Tragedy excites the soul,' he later told one of his secretaries, 'lifts the heart, can and ought to create heroes.'24

Andrew Roberts