Kingdom Keepers 5 Quotes

#1. What is that in his hand?"
"A cleaver. As in-"
"Butcher's knife."
"You got it."
"I hope not."
"He does not look happy."
"Are you sure it's a he?"
"I don't want to know.

Ridley Pearson

#2. Walking a short way back along the embankment, almost to where the cross stood, Smiley took another look at the bridge, as if to establish whether anything had changed, but clearly it had not, and though the wind appeared a little stronger, the snow was still swirling in all directions.

John Le Carre

#3. My family didn't have very much money, so ballet wasn't even on my radar; I just found it randomly when I was 13 at a Boys & Girls Club. We were practicing in a basketball court in gym clothes with some old socks on. Even though it terrified me at first, I found that I really liked it.

Misty Copeland

#4. There is no one in this world who can't be replaced.

Haruki Murakami

#5. I have only one heart to give and one mind to lose. May I someday find a woman who will take them both.

Michael W. Grimard

#6. The "rain" was nothing more than the emergency sprinkler system gone wild. All this trouble could be easily explained: the sprinklers malfunctioning. Maleficent had done her job well.

Ridley Pearson

#7. If you would be a poet, write living newspapers. Be a reporter from outer space, filing dispatches to some supreme managing editor who believes in full disclosure and has a low tolerance for bullshit.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#8. What do you care more about? The kids or your hair?

Ridley Pearson

#9. Well, listen, Obi-Wan," Philby said sarcastically. "Why don't you tell me and Luke here where to find him, and we'll make for hyperspace.

Ridley Pearson

#10. But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.

Thomas Aquinas

#11. Finn stood away from all the water with his friend Dillard, who had taken the occasion to borrow one of his father's Hawaiian shirts. Finn thought he looked pretty cool.

Ridley Pearson

#12. Also not the kind of place to hide a server."
"Is that another pun?" She asked.
"No! I swear! I didn't mean that one."

~Shell Game, Kingdom Keepers #5

Ridley Pearson

#13. Learn from your failure's; do not prevent misfortune from teaching you.

Mandy Hale

#14. It's a cloudy day out, no rain but no sun either. Unfair that on a day like this there shouldn't be brilliance for her.

Kelsey Sutton

#15. Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.

Henry Miller

#16. Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

George Henry Lewes

#17. Lina loved her little sister so much that it was like an ache under her ribs.

Jeanne DuPrau

#18. Catch me coming to my senses, when it's so delightful to be mad. I'm too sharp for that.

E.D.E.N. Southworth

#19. I learned to practice smiling when I'm feeling sad, you know?

Yuna

#20. A library is a temple unabridged with priceless treasure. Librarians are the majesties who loan the jewels of measure. They welcome to the kingdom the young and old of reapers and reign among the riches as the wondrous fortune keepers.

Pam Munoz Ryan

#21. That's right," Philby said, remembering. "You're a computer freak, aren't you, Maybeck?"
"Freak? I'm freaking good with them, if that's what you're asking.

Ridley Pearson

#22. God, two men in one day had made her blush. Worse - were making her hornier than an off-duty Marine in Taiwan.

Cherise Sinclair

#23. One thing I'd learned growing up was that no matter who claimed you, you had to first claim yourself.

Ridley Pearson

#24. He likes you, too." Finn repeated. "And don't tell me to shut up."
"Shut up!"
-Kingdom Keepers, Shell Game

Ridley Pearson