Lilia's Quotes

#1. Michaela wasn't someone Lilia ever trusted, but there was a certain kinship; she shared Lilia's suspicion that the world might prove, in the end, to have been either a mirage or a particularly elaborate hoax.

Emily St. John Mandel

#2. When Lilia was four years old, her mother filled a shallow dish with Lilia's blood and fed it to the boars that patrolled the thorn fence.

Kameron Hurley

#3. A coerced choice does not reflect virtue, only compliance.

Wendy McElroy

#4. The young have all the same flaws adults do. Plus one: immaturity.

Nelson Rodrigues

#5. Because I knew so much about him, because I had been close to him, I couldn't bring the various fragments of my experience with him into a single coherent image. The truth was mobile and contradictory, and I was willing to live with that.

Siri Hustvedt

#6. I was even accused of teaching the chimps how to fish for termites which I mean that would have been such a brilliant coup.

Jane Goodall

#7. Russia is actively using gas diplomacy for its expansion over the ex-Soviet space in a bid to become a regional superpower.

Lilia Shevtsova

#8. His own personal siren nightmare. What else could it be when his body only sparked alive when it was her.

She made his lungs work, his heart beat.

It was a goddamn disease is what it was.

V. Theia

#9. Most good things come with the risk of something bad.

Richelle Mead

#10. Autocratic leadership existed in Russia for many centuries, changing only its ideological colors and method of legitimization.

Lilia Shevtsova

#11. It's a nice feeling,
Knowing,
Someone lived easier
Because I was alive.

Nikki Rowe

#12. Love isn't about what you have or who you know. It's about how you earn what you have and how you treat those you love.

Lisa De Jong

#13. The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it.

Francis Ford Coppola

#14. She liked books, but the hours spent in small-town libraries were tedious, and she began the first list when she was eight or nine as a means of distraction. A list of names, eventually expanding to ten or twelve pages: Lilia, Gabriel, Anna, Michelle. In every town her name was different.

Emily St. John Mandel

#15. We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.

Jose Narosky

#16. valley. After a half mile the road deteriorated into a

Tom Deaderick

#17. Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

Holly Black

#18. What she aspired to was a kind of delirious perfection. What Lilia wanted was to travel, but not only that; she wanted to be a citizen of everywhere, free-wheeling and capable of instant flight.

Emily St. John Mandel

#19. But that couldn't be... you don't.... That's wrong," she said lamely.

"You mean morally?" Donal looked utterly struck by the notion. "Morally wrong! Well!" He pretended to ponder and then said earnestly, "I should hope so! Honestly, Jenny-girl, moral sex! Where's the point in that?

Lilia Ford

#20. Lilia did not believe in miracles outside of history books, but she was beginning to believe in her own power, and that was a more frightening thing to believe in.

Kameron Hurley

#21. Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Sam Levenson

#22. Ukraine is the instrument for Russia to test the West's 'red lines'

Lilia Shevtsova