Leesha's Quotes

#1. Hurting with words is easy," Mairy replied, echoing Leesha's earlier statement, "it's healing with them what's hard.

Peter V. Brett

#2. Why are you doing this?" Amanvah whispered, her accent thick like her mother's, but every word clear. "My mother would not be so kind to one who tried to poison her."
"Nor would mine, but we are not our mothers, Amanvah," Leesha said.

Peter V. Brett

#3. Rojer nodded, but his eye grew wet. Leesha squeezed his hand. "Herb Gatherers see death often," she told him. "No one, no one, ever goes to the Creator with all their business complete. We all get a different length of time, but it needs to be enough, regardless.

Peter V. Brett

#4. The girl must be looking for another hot-fudge shower, Ellen said. Then she, too, advanced on Leesha.

Cinda Williams Chima

#5. I went to high school with girls that would daydream about what strip club they wanted to work at. That's one of the sad things about Vegas.

Brandon Flowers

#6. How'd it go with Leesha?"
"It was great! We were bad cop and bad cop!

Cinda Williams Chima

#7. There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.

Daley Thompson

#8. Leesha knew from experience that when parents don't parent, kids grow up fast.

Cinda Williams Chima

#9. I just tape four Tylenols to it.

Boris Mironov

#10. My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

Frank Miller

#11. You young people yourselves are capable of performing anything. Our inventors can invent in a high level, Our innovators can innovate in a high level, only if they keep self confidence and believe that we can.

Ruhollah Khomeini

#12. Poor Amy. I could tell she was suffering. Poor Thing. Life was so tough for the rich, beautiful and magical.

Elizabeth A. Reeves

#13. With the Holy Spirit, you have it made! For you, life is already successful.

Chris Oyakhilome

#14. Christian faith is not (not always? not usually?) a call to caution and moderation.

William C. Placher

#15. If we don't start thinking big about the CO2 problem, we may miss our opportunity to stop a climate runaway that will trash the habitable parts of the earth.

William H. Calvin

#16. There was something savage and elemental and feral in him. The fact that he was a savant only added to the intrigue.
I always go for the dangerous boys, Leesha thought.

Cinda Williams Chima

#17. When I was president, I knew exactly what I wanted to do every day to bring America together and create a greater sense of opportunity and a larger sense of responsibility and a stronger sense of community.

William J. Clinton

#18. I'm going to gather all the French people who want change.

Francois Hollande

#19. Then talk to Hastings."
Leesha flinched. "He's so scary, you know?

Cinda Williams Chima

#20. The effortlessness of a performance for which great strength is needed is a spectacle of whose aesthetic beauty the East has an exceedingly sensitive and grateful appreciation.

Eugen Herrigel

#21. Why would you do that for me?" Leesha asked.
Rojer smiled, taking her hand in his crippled one. "We're survivors, aren't we?" he asked. "Someone once told me that survivors have to look out for one another.

Peter V. Brett

#22. Don't leave my embrace for here in my arms is your place.

Elvis Presley

#23. She didn't hesitate to kiss me back and I decided then and there that kissing Shaw was probably as close to heaven as I was ever going to get.

Jay Crownover