Jormanric Quotes

#1. It had silenced Jormanric in mid-fury, had made the hairs on his own skin prickle with terror. The Prison was alive. It was cruel and careless, and he was Inside it.

Catherine Fisher

#2. Everyone has memories, Finn. Your prophecies are what matter. The visions that descend on you are the great gift and strangeness of the Starseer. They're unique. The people know that, the slaves and the warband, even Jormanric.It's in the way they look at you. Sometimes they fear you.

Catherine Fisher

#3. If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
[Meditations Divine and Moral]

Anne Bradstreet

#4. Twitter wanted to become a more egalitarian justice system, but instead it became a draconian one.

Jon Ronson

#5. I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something, and if there is a born-again quality to me, that's it.

Peter Jennings

#6. Selfless giving presupposes something - that there is a lumunious reality.

Frederick Lenz

#7. Travel is like a tonic to me. It's more than just getting away from the studio for a brief rest. I need it to recharge my batteries.

Norman Rockwell

#8. It's illegal, you know," he murmurs. "Stealing."
I clear my throat. "Stealing?"
"My heart. I could have you arrested."
I snort. "For that tiny thing? I'd get a misdemeanor at most.

Eliza Crewe

#9. I'll have them niggers voting Democratic for the next two hundred years. [Said to two governors regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1964, according to then-Air Force One steward Robert MacMillan]

Lyndon B. Johnson