Quotes About Yorda

#1. Yorda...that's your name?

Miyuki Miyabe

#2. Filled with hope, Ico looked into Yorda's eyes. He felt like was looking into an hourglass, trying to pick through the grains of sand for some truth buried there long ago. He hadn't found anything yet, but the warmth of Yorda's hands in his told him that he was getting close.

Miyuki Miyabe

#3. Ico ran back to the windmill, growing increasily nervous with each moment Yorda was out of his sight. He didn't want to think what would happen if the shadow-creatures attacked while they were apart.

Miyuki Miyabe

#4. She put a hand on his arm and gently pushed.
"What?" Ico asked, his voice hoarse. "You want me to run away by myself, too?"
Yorda nodded.

Miyuki Miyabe

#5. Ico stared at Yorda's face. It was beautiful. He didn't dare breathe for fear of breaking the spell. Her eyes were sparkling.
Thank you.

Miyuki Miyabe

#6. Yorda turned away from the shadow-creature just as its claws were about to close on her shoulders. Her eyes met Ico's, then fell to his outstretched hand.
Finally, fear spurred her to action. She ran and jumped.

Miyuki Miyabe

#7. Ico made to charge her again. The queen raised a clawlike nail, but Yorda stepped between them. Without a word, Yorda stretched out her arms in front of Ico, holding him back. Ico looked into her eyes and she shook her head, pleading with him.

Miyuki Miyabe

#8. She had gone quite a distance. He had to backtrack a significant way, stopping to call out every few paces. When at last he found Yorda, the sight of her slender frame sent a stab of pain through Ico's chest as he remembered the girl he had seen in the water.
He reached out his hand to her.

Miyuki Miyabe

#9. Yorda slid down the side of the throne platform and walked again toward Ico. She moved differently now. This was not the Yorda he had led through the castle by the hand, the Yorda who would wander aimlessly if he did not call out to her. This was the queen's double, her puppet.

Miyuki Miyabe

#10. But the boy was there, and he was looking at her. That was when Yorda understood what was drawing out her memories of the castle into the boy. It was him. He wanted to know its dark past. He wanted to know everything. No one could stop this. Not even the queen.

Miyuki Miyabe

#11. Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

Philip Roth

#12. Let our hearts always sing the song of love.

Debasish Mridha

#13. He wondered how many other people were lucky enough to have an entire universe of need satisfied by one blond-haired man.

John Wiltshire

#14. At last, she made her decision and grabbed Ico's hand tightly.

Miyuki Miyabe

#15. Obsess about customers, not competitors.

Jeff Bezos

#16. If you're outraged at conditions, then you can't possibly be free or happy until you devote all your time to changing them and do nothing but that. But you can't change anything if you want to hold onto a good job, a good way of life and avoid sacrifice.

Cesar Chavez

#17. When you ignore what people are saying on a daily basis, calling for the annihilation of your country, you are ignoring them at your own risk.

Caroline Glick

#18. I truly enjoy Bono. I think he is an amazing person; I love him.

Mary J. Blige

#19. Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.

Pankaj Mishra

#20. I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.

Laurie Metcalf

#21. The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.

Edwin Way Teale

#22. When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Charles Caleb Colton

#23. It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.

Douglas Coupland

#24. Sculpt my body into what you see in your mind ... into what you desire. Paint me with marks, bruises and bites. Please, Damon, do whatever you crave ... what you need to keep only wanting me.

Scarlet Wolfe

#25. There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo ... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.

Ed Sheeran