Trell Quotes

#1. All I ever wanted to do was live my own life. And I'm having damn little success at that."

p. 250: Brashen Trell and Amber

Robin Hobb

#2. Half the evil in this world occurs while decent people stand by and do nothing wrong. It's not enough to refrain from evil, Trell. People have to attempt to do right, even if they believe they cannot succeed.

Robin Hobb

#3. This, it seemed, was just what happened when you left someone. They disappeared behind you like the wake of a boat.

Jennifer E. Smith

#4. The main thing, and the thing which such people as he do not understand," rejoined the lady, "is that only love consecrates marriage, and that the real marriage is that which is consecrated by love.

Leo Tolstoy

#5. All of my role models, whether it was the disciples, or John the Baptist or Arthur Rimbaud, slept under the stars.

Patti Smith

#6. She's strong! And scary ... I bet she's single ... I'd put money on it..

Masashi Kishimoto

#7. Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

Remy De Gourmont

#8. Sometimes people ask me to do stuff in New York, like "Can you read at this thing?" And I say, "Nooo, I can't just get on a plane with these two screaming children - I can't just get rid of them on such short notice and take vacation and fly over to New York."

Victoria Chang

#9. The last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it.

Walter Isaacson

#10. I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.

Marcus Brigstocke

#11. I watch very little television, actually. There's so many shows I want to watch and then I know I'll get hooked and I have to binge-watch the entire thing.

Geena Davis

#12. I am the first to point out that I really am not kind to illustrators. By that, I mean I really don't give that much to work with.

James A. Moore

#13. One cannot guess the real difficulties of a problem before having solved it.

Carl Ludwig Siegel