Kings Cage Quotes

#1. I think in Singapore, we stand a chance of making the one-man-one-vote system work. With amendments as we have done, you know, like GRCs.. We need to make it work. And I believe with pragmatic adjustments, given these favourable conditions, we can have more open debate.

Lee Kuan Yew

#2. The colonel looks eager, but Cal could not seem more reluctant. He keeps still, knowing that any twitch might betray his true feelings. The lack of movement is just as damning. "I'll see what I can come up with," he finally forces out.

Victoria Aveyard

#3. It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.

Samuel Butler

#4. People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

Jane Austen

#5. I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.

Peter Greenaway

#6. Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.

Robert Stack

#7. Cal stares ahead, as if his eyes alone can set the entire world on fire. I think he wants to. That would make this easier.

Victoria Aveyard

#8. That's essentially what Zen practice is about: functioning from moment to moment.

Charlotte Joko Beck

#9. Only his eyes remain the same. Bronze, red-gold, like iron brought to blazing heat.

Victoria Aveyard

#10. Another round," she goads, and holds out a hand for the cards. "I bet a week of laundry."
Across from us, Cal stops his preparatory stretching to snort. "You think Mare does laundry?"
"Do you, Your Highness?" I snap back, grinning. He just pretends not to hear me.

Victoria Aveyard

#11. You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love.

Anais Nin

#12. Locks or no locks, you're not going to cage me in.

Collette West

#13. And his eyes are worst of all. Her eyes, Elara's eyes. Once I thought them cold, made of living ice. Now I know better. The hottest fires burn blue, and his eyes are no exception.

Victoria Aveyard

#14. I know!" he growls back, his voice guttural. I wonder if all of his fire kind have eyes like his. Eyes that burn and smolder.

Victoria Aveyard

#15. Al-Qa'ida does not follow a traditional command structure, wear uniforms, carry its arms openly, or mass its troops at the borders of the nations it attacks. Nonetheless, it possesses the demonstrated capability to strike with little notice and cause significant civilian or military casualties.

John O. Brennan

#16. Cal stares at the floor, silent for a long, stoic moment. "I never thought Maven would do that to her," he mutters finally. "She probably didn't either."
Then you're both stupid, my brain screams. How many times doe one wicked boy have to betray you people before you learn?

Victoria Aveyard

#17. Martin Scorsese is one of the great filmmakers of all time.

Rob Reiner

#18. The months have been good to Tiberias Calore. A life of war suits him. He seems vibrant and alive, even after narrowly escaping death on the walls.

Victoria Aveyard

#19. Cameron, my heart is quite literally in this," he hisses through gritted teeth.
Swooning words. A romantic declaration. I can barely stop my eyes from rolling.
"Save it for when we get her back," I grumble.

Victoria Aveyard

#20. The smell made it really hard to be friends with you."
"Probably why we stuck together. No one else could handle my stink or your attitude.

Victoria Aveyard

#21. Grace shows that the Christian race is God's race.

Pedro Okoro

#22. What I would do, to myself or anyone else, for the chance to go back home? But no one is there. No one I care about. They're gone, protected, far away. Home is no longer the place we're from. Home is safe with them. I hope.

Victoria Aveyard