Sparhawk's Quotes

#1. Sparhawk's reputation must have preceded him. The Massachusetts coast, as he was often reminded, was shaped like an ear. It heard everything.

Donna Thorland

#2. Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to conditions of life.

John Dewey

#3. People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Emma Goldman

#4. The packaging for music has become a sort of King James Bible, where it elevates the contents to something more spiritual. This is something else that drove me to a newspaper format. I thought, "Let's put it in a newspaper, to get away from that spiritual thing."

Stanley Donwood

#5. Its a perfectly good face, Sparhawk."
"It covers the front of my head. What else can you expect from a face?

David Eddings

#6. Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

Carre Otis

#7. Enter with the torch in the stadium. 80,000 people screaming. I was waiting downstairs for the start for 10 hours; I was so tired with the torch. I give the torch to the combined ski cross country that they win gold in Lillehammer in 1994.

Alberto Tomba

#8. I was sent here for you, Taryn. You needed a hero and I am here to be him. (Sparhawk)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. Complacency leads to redundancy

Poppet

#10. War isn't about dying for your country. It's about making the enemy die for his. Gen. George S. Patton

Lee Child

#11. I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

Irving Stone

#12. That's a strange hobby for a Church Knight."

"God hired me as a fighting man, Sparhawk, not as a monk. I fight whenever He tells me to, but the rest of my time is my own.

David Eddings

#13. In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished and abusive environment. Seldom are people with money or prestige convicted of capital offenses, even more seldom are they executed.

George Ryan

#14. Are all knights so gentle? (Taryn)
I know not, Taryn, since I don't make it my habit to lie abed with other knights. (Sparhawk)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#15. But to be honest, there is only so much battle a man can take. I think all of us crave a quieter life with a tender touch. (Sparhawk)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#16. Sparhawk had fallen into a nest of pirates.

Donna Thorland

#17. Sex, death and war. And justice. There's no shortage of lyrics there.

Lemmy Kilmister

#18. The grave will fall in upon him who digs it.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#19. Self-discovery means learning to live free!

Tae Yun Kim

#20. The book was a challenge, a secondhand paperback crammed with huge and violent emotions in small crowded type on waterlogged pages.

Don DeLillo

#21. Sparhawk just sounded too ludicrous for words when spoken out loud. What had the writer been thinking? Oh, do me, great big Sparhawk. You the man.' (Taryn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#22. I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them, and I really liked having them around.

Cy Twombly

#23. I am the Earl of Ravensmoor. And you are? (Sparhawk) Totally freaking out. (Taryn) Tis a most peculiar name, milady. Are you by chance Welsh? (Sparhawk)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#24. I don't ever want to leave this bed, my lady Taryn. (Sparhawk)
Me either. But if we don't, it could get ugly after a few days. We'd shrivel up from lack of water. (Taryn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#25. Sparhawk grinned. "If Martel finds out that he's drinking again, he'll reach down his throat and pull his heart out." "Can you actually do that to a man?" "You can if your arm's long enough, and if you know what you're looking for.[ ... ]

David Eddings

#26. Don't mess with our fans or we'll come and find you.

Niall Horan

#27. When I was younger, I never thought there could be anything better than the glory of battle. (Sparhawk)
And now? (Taryn)
Now I would much rather coax a smile from your face. (Sparhawk)

Sherrilyn Kenyon