The Elementals Quotes

#1. I've been deflecting Calypso's blushes all day. I don't have the energy to deflect yours," he said through clenched teeth. "So either block or strip." -- The Twelfth House ~ The Elementals Book I

T.L. McCallan

#2. Later - how much later? Hard to tell. In times of tragedy clocks will trick you - Philip stood in the kitchen doorway.

Dexter Palmer

#3. If you weren't good for making food, shelter, or babies, then you were tossed out on your own.

Sherman Alexie

#4. There is no greater will on earth than the will to survive. These fine people, answering my father's call to arms, had the will in spades and droves.
- Lord Tristan Dracanburh, Ethandun

Alexandra May

#5. Aye," said Rob Anybody. "Gods, elementals, demons, spirits ... sometimes it's hard to tell 'em apart wi'oot a map.

Terry Pratchett

#6. Queen Mirabella stands at the altar of the Goddess. Sweating, but not from heat. Elementals are not bothered much by temperature, and if they were, no one inside could complain of being warm.

Kendare Blake

#7. If you're trying to reassure me, don't make it sound like you want to eat me." Tarn leaned in farther, letting the long twists of his hair fall to brush Gard's cheek. Then he murmured, putting a little growl into it, "I do want to eat you. I like the way you taste.

Amy Rae Durreson

#8. For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better.

Mark Strand

#9. I've never studied the Japanese. That's something that must have crept in there. But the Japanese are my biggest clients. They seem to like the elemental quality.

Andrew Wyeth

#10. I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.
(- Saroyan, when once asked the name of his next book.)

William, Saroyan

#11. You can make a movie about anything, as long as it has a hook to hang the advertising on.

Roger Corman

#12. The woman with hair of flames knelt over me. She might have been pretty if not for the anger in every corner of her face. Emerald eyes glowed with almost seeping venom as her nostrils flared.
- Lord Tristan Dracanburh, Ethandun

Alexandra May

#13. An eye for an eye is elemental.

Lou Reed

#14. Supernaturals is a broad term used to classify beings that include Elementals and numerous other creatures. Like what? The list is endless. Witches, Demons, Spirits, stuff like that. Wow, I commented dryly. It's like a giant Halloween party isn't it?

Alessia Dickson

#15. The best kind of onion soup is the simplest kind.

Ambrose Bierce

#16. Men not men, but animas of coal and iron and clay. Fauna of the elements, carbon, iron, silicon: elementals. They had perhaps some of the weird inhuman beauty of minerals, the lustre of coal, the weight and blueness and resistance of iron, the transparency of glass.

D.H. Lawrence

#17. One of the advantages of having a binary vascular system was that he could always pump his blood faster than normal if he chose to, raising his body temperature at will.

Marcus Sedgwick

#18. It's the people who love us or hate us - or both - who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of.

Elena Ferrante

#19. The rhyme pad was a spell book - it summoned asphalt elementals, elder gods, and weeping ancestors, all of whom had your back.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#20. Something that made you believe there was a God but he didn't make miracles. He created beings and gave them the power to make miracles, miracles both great and small.

Kristen Ashley

#21. I'm curious about other universes, and nonhuman elementals. For me it's still a very lively ethos. It's a kind of practice. It's an ethos that is very sustaining.

Anne Waldman

#22. This has to be a joke. After all, an owl hadn't dropped a letter down my fireplace to let me know I'd been accepted into a special school, and I certainly hadn't taken an enchanted train to get to Kinsley High.

Michelle Madow

#23. There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.

W.G. Sebald

#24. While it is important to trash the governor, it should be done in the context of regret, sadness and balance.

Frank Luntz

#25. When I graduated from college in early 2010, I decided that I needed to create a calling card, some kind of business card that people can link to my name and face. So I did this 'Mad Men Theme Song ... With a Twist' music video. I released it just as I moved to L.A.

Allison Williams