17 quotes found
“Better a live dog than a dead lion.”
“- Why you?- (...) Im the best.- Modest of you.- I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it.”
“- Why you?- (...) I’m the best.- Modest of you.- I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it.”
“Where have you come from boy?'He looked at her again.'From hell, to take you away in the night and eat you.”
“Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victimsthe second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.”
“Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims—the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.”
“How can I know for sure if it's my son speaking and not you?""You never can, my lord. Just as no man can ever be sure that he alone is a thinking and feeling creature and everyone else a machine th...”
“I have a message for your daughter, said Cale. I am bound to her with cables that not even God can break. One day, if there is a soft breeze on her cheek, it may be my breath; one night, if the coo...”
“t was once famously said that it is as well that wars are so ruinously expensive, else we would never stop fighting them. However well said, it seems also to be endlessly forgotten that, while ther...”
“...his soul (was) ringing like a well-struck bell. But it was a bell that rang with more than joy and adoration there was the sound there too of anger and resentment. She would not look at him bec...”
“...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.”
“... If the dead can come back to this earth and move unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the garish day and in the darkest nightamidst your happiest scenes and gloomiest ...”
“Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of ragebut always part of him had not cared at all whether he lived or died. Now he did care, and very deeply, and...”
“...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and pain. How could she be with him for long? A secret part of Arbell ...”
“...Again she did not seem to hear, still looking into Cales eyes. Then slowly, hopelessly, she dropped her gaze. I understand, she said. It was that, of course, that pierced him as if she had stabb...”
“I have a message for your daughter,” said Cale. “I am bound to her with cables that not even God can break. One day, if there is a soft breeze on her cheek, it may be my breath; one night, if the c...”
“...Again she did not seem to hear, still looking into Cale’s eyes. Then slowly, hopelessly, she dropped her gaze. “I understand,” she said. It was that, of course, that pierced him as if she had st...”
