Marinda Valenti Quotes

#1. Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.

Ezra Pound

#2. I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.

Barbra Streisand

#3. You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise ... guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

Philippa Gregory

#4. Your brother beat him almost to death, Temujin. He held him and kicked him until he cried like a child. He is afraid of you, so he hates you. It would be wrong to hurt him again. It would be like beating a dog after it has loosed it's bladder. The spirit is already broken in him.

Conn Iggulden

#5. Bones were bones; these days, nothing was easier to come by.

George R R Martin

#6. When I think of the gold-diggers and the Mormons, the slaves and the slave-holders and the flibustiers, I naturally dream of a glorious private life. No, I am not patriotic.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. Oh, that I do know ... Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.

Suzanne Collins