Vorthalia Quotes

#1. Damn it," he mumbled apologetically, "things like this never happened to Vorthalia the Bold."
She raised a thoughtful eyebrow. "How do you know? The histories of those times were all written by minstrels and poets. You try and think of a word that rhymes with 'bleeding ulcer

Lois McMaster Bujold

#2. Sincere love is not as a result of emotional surges - it's a result of obedience to the Truth.

Alistair Begg

#3. If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.

Paulo Coelho

#4. Returning to his quarters, he opened the window (though it was only the size of a postage stamp),

Amor Towles

#5. Work saved me. Literature saved me. It sounds corny but it's absolutely true. I was going in the wrong direction, but after the 9,000th night at the bar doing dope with a bunch of Dead Heads, I began to think there was something more.

T.C. Boyle

#6. I'm a big admirer of S21, and I really also like Rithy Panh's work in general.

Joshua Oppenheimer