Rakel Quotes

#1. [Rakel] It feels a bit like jumping out of a burning house. Falling is better than burning.
[Harry] At least until you land.
[Rakel] I've come to realize that falling and living have certain things in common. For a start, both are very temporary states of being.

Jo Nesbo

#2. Well, it is in fact possible to put things behind you, Rakel. The art of dealing with ghosts is to dare to look at them long and hard until you know that is what they are. Ghosts. Lifeless, powerless ghosts.

Jo Nesbo

#3. She's Verglas's greatest tragedy and last hope: the Princess Rakel.

K.M. Shea

#4. It seems you didn't understand me," Rakel said, adjusting her grip on his hand. She had to spit the words out around the pain that tore through her. "When I say that love is pure, I mean it stands unrivaled in its power.

K.M. Shea

#5. When the Fed decides that inflation is too high, they have the tools, and they've shown historically that they have the will, to bring it down. And, it might be painful.

Paul Krugman

#6. And a long time," he said. "I am a jealous man, but not a vengeful one. I would take you from him, my Sassenach - but I wouldna take him from you.

Diana Gabaldon

#7. Do you know what I've learned, after three decades of death?" Gamache asked, leaning toward the agent and lowering his voice. Despite himself, the agent leaned forward. "I've learned how precious life is.

Louise Penny

#8. That we should have an agriculture based as much on petroleum as the soil-that we need petroleum exactly as much as we need food and must have it before we can eat-may seem absurd. It is absurd. It is nevertheless true.

Wendell Berry

#9. flute. As I stood in the doorway, he lingered over it, then, carefully rewrapping it, placed it in his box of treasured things. I never saw the flute again. *

Mildred D. Taylor

#10. My stand-up act is very clean.

Carol Leifer

#11. Slowly, I've come to realize That I cannot heal my past And that fearing the unavoidable future Is pointless

Ayumi Hamasaki

#12. P5-what they need..is a quality of mind that will help them to use information and to develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in the world and of what may be happening within themselves. It this this quality..what may be called the sociological imagination.

C. Wright Mills

#13. I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.

Margaret Atwood

#14. A guy walks into a pub with a lump of asphalt on His shoulder, He says to the bar man give us a pint and one for the road.

Tommy Cooper

#15. Maria's sweet voice filled the silence. "Well, she's pleasant." I chuckled at the sarcasm dripping from her comment. "Yeah, if you find a root canal pleasant, then she's a gem.

C.A. Harms

#16. I don't get insomnia, but I do get the odd night when I can't unwind.

Delia Smith

#17. Sing me to sleep, sing me to sleep. I'm tired and I want to go to bed. SIng me to sleep, sing me to sleep, and then leave me alone. Don't try to wake me in the morning because I will be gone. Don't feel bad for me. I want you to know, deep in the cell of my heart, I will feel so glad to go.

The Smiths