Shadow Blades Quotes

#1. I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't understand.

Hassan Blasim

#2. The quiet is fretful, unnatural. It's what a mouse must feel as it steps from its hole and into the open blades of a meadow, never knowing what shadow might come cruising above.

Anthony Doerr

#3. The summer breeze was blowing on your face
Within your violet you treasure your summery words
And as the shiver from my neck down to my spine
Ignited me in daylight and nature in the garden

Van Morrison

#4. His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.

Rob Sheffield

#6. Singh in computational biology held forth on her theory of the protomolecule as a Guzman-style quantum computer one night over dinner, and when Kibushi used the information without citing her, she snuck into the showers at the gymnasium and beat him to death with a ceramic workbench cap.

James S.A. Corey

#7. "I know it's not fair to ask either of you to be okay with that."
Jeb tips up my chin with a fingertip. "You didn't ask. And I don't want fair. I don't want easy, either. I want one lifetime with you, and every crazy complication that comes with it."

A.G. Howard

#8. He's got the kind of body that could turn a nun into a whore.

Brooke Moss

#9. For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#10. Don't worry. Don't apologize. Don't cower behind the defeated security of there is no 'room for someone like me'. There isn't room for any one of us. It's up to you to make a place for yourself in the world. So get to work.

Cheryl Strayed

#11. Life becomes a dilemma when you are living a purposeless and goalless life

Sunday Adelaja

#12. We're just blades of grass, and when we go, we go, we never come back; one life ... maybe that's true. But I tend to believe that this is not all there is. Because my life has been like a shadow of something deeper. And I've experienced that many times.

Anthony Hopkins

#13. third or fourth.

James Patterson

#14. The lottery question might get you thinking about what you would do if talent and money didn't matter. But they do. The question twentysomethings need to ask themselves is what they would do with their lives if they didn't win the lottery.

Meg Jay

#15. I want to kiss her without counting the seconds. I want to hold her so long that I get to know her skin. I want, I want, I want.

David Levithan

#16. Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly.

Charles R. Swindoll

#17. I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life.

Martha Gellhorn