Safi's Quotes

#1. You're chained up." A wince pulled at Safi's eyes. "I upset the Admiral." "Of course you did." "It's not funny.

Susan Dennard

#2. We need the tonic of wildness and ... nature.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. Life is just action and reaction, rationalizations are added later on

Ibn-e-Safi

#4. Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

George Bernard Shaw

#5. How can you succeed by helping others succeed? We succeed at our very best only when we help others succeed.

James C. Collins

#6. But the cleaving Tidewitch didn't care. His blackened eyes had latched on to Safi now. His bloodstained hands clawed up and he barreled toward her like a squall.

Susan Dennard

#7. We are like the watermelons. Each of us has a crusty external rind. A case that both protects us and keeps others out. The closer you get to the middle, that is to say - the closer you get to the heart - the sweeter we get.

Omid Safi

#8. Iseult knew what she had to do. She knew what Safi would do in this position. What Habim or Mathew or her mother or anyone with a backbone would do. So why was she finding it so hard to summon any words?

Susan Dennard

#9. Safi ignored him--he was clearly an idiot

Susan Dennard

#10. Well, Safi was calling horse shit on that. She didn't lack initiative - she was initiative.

Susan Dennard

#11. I hate this. Both the storm and the plan. Why does it have to be 'we'? Why not just me?"
"Because 'just me' isn't who we are," Iseult hollered back. "I'll always follow you, Safi, and you'll always follow me. Threadsisters to the end.

Susan Dennard

#12. Yes," Safi breathed, swaying into one of the men holding her up. She flashed a grin at him and said, "I'm Safiya fon Hasstrel, and I can do anything.

Susan Dennard

#13. I'll strip with you," Safi offered, grabbing for her shirttails. "If anyone shows up" - the shirt slid over her face, muffled her words - "I'll dance around and distract them.

Susan Dennard

#14. Oh, I know!" Safi clapped her hands, delighted by her own genius. "I shall call you Un-empressed."
"Please," Vaness said coldly, "stop this immediately."
Safi absolutely did not.

Susan Dennard

#15. My mom says crying is just your body expelling all the bad stuff. Like a sneeze. Like your soul sneezing.

Jeff Garvin

#16. It's necessary but not sufficient to learn and then work. You must learn from the work and learn while you work.

Judith Rodin

#17. Safi snatched the other side of his shirt. These go inside these.

Susan Dennard

#18. I felt as if we were fighting something worse than Anne, some demon that possessed her, that possessed all of us Boleyns: ambition - the devil that had brought us to this little room and brought my sister to this insane distress and us to this savage battle.

Philippa Gregory

#19. and she and the mare set off after Safi.

Susan Dennard

#20. He was good. The best fighter she'd ever faced. But Safi and Iseult were better.

Susan Dennard

#21. He felt like a criminal, though the only laws he'd broken were his own, and he wasn't sure which ones they were.

Hanif Kureishi

#22. No one wakes up in the morning and says, 'I want to gain 150 pounds and I will start right now!

Tricia Cunningham

#23. Some Wishes won't become true But will lead you to the ultimate Truth

Uzair Safi

#24. She felt no relief at having survived this attack. No heady satisfaction surged through her because she'd made it to shore. She felt only a growing emptiness. A gathering dark. For this was her life now. Not boredom and lectures, but hell-flames and assassins. Massacres and endless flight.

Susan Dennard

#25. Safi was sick of dancing. Literally, she felt ill from all the spinning, and her breath - she'd not had a single moment to catch it since ... Merik. Prince Merik. The man who couldn't dress himself properly had turned out to be royalty.

Susan Dennard

#26. Its not a good idea to argue with ignorant people but sometime ignorance can't be ignored

Adnan Safi

#27. Never had Safi seen so many furled sails. Or circling sea gulls.
Cursed birds.

Susan Dennard

#28. Iseult hated herself for that truth, but there it was. She wanted to go after Safi; she wanted Aeduan to lead the way; she wished this child would simply disappear.
Monster, she told herself. You're a monster.

Susan Dennard

#29. Shut the door, he ordered. Safi did, but tensed her muscles. She might have danced and fought with this man, but that didn't mean she trusted him in a room alone.

Susan Dennard

#30. Paranormal events are just edges of the infinite we "happen" to encounter.

Doug Dillon

#31. I told you, Hell-Bard. Everyone lies. It's in the way we banter with our friends. It's in the mundane greetings we give passersby. It's in the most meaningless things we do every single moment of every single day. Hundreds upon thousands of tiny, inconsequential lies.

Susan Dennard

#32. I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink - some mornings we would find him sleeping. Two weeks after its opening, I became the chef. I was 20 years old, and way over my head. I had to hire the cooks and do the menus.

Bobby Flay

#33. Sorry to make you wait!" Safi roared over the rapid four-beat race. Her legs were bared, her silk gown shredded, and she clutched a pitchfork to her stomach. "And sorry for the trouble on my ass!

Susan Dennard

#34. Safi was beyond anger. Beyond temper. This was her life now - forever running, forever changing hands from one enemy to the next until eventually the enemy severed her neck. It had been inevitable, really. Her magic had cursed her from the day she was born.

Susan Dennard

#35. And do all Hell-Bards waddle like a duck, or is it just you?

Susan Dennard