Halsingland Quotes

I don't like this war. I don't like the cold-blooded scheming at the beginning and the carnage at the end and the grumbling and the jealousies and the pettishness in the middle. I hate the lack of gallantry and grace; the self-seeking; the destruction of valuable people and things. I believe in danger and endeavor as a form of tempering but I reject it if this is the only shape it can take. ~ Dorothy Dunnett

At the same time all the houses round about promptly took part in this silence, and so did the darkness above them, reaching as far as the stars. And the footsteps of invisible passers-by, whose course I had no wish to guess at, the wind that kept on driving against the other side of the street, the gramophone singing behind closed windows in some room - they made themselves heard in this silence, as if they had owned it for ever and ever. ~ Franz Kafka

Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself. ~ C.S. Lewis

The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought. ~ C.S. Lewis

I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read 'The Giver' now have their own kids who are reading it. Even from the beginning, the book attracted an audience beyond a child audience. ~ Lois Lowry

Book marketing is a skill: it takes knowledge, effort, and persistence to really be successful. ~ Heather Hart

Life is the result of all your choices. ~ Albert Camus

Hurting people is such a boyish thing to do. ~ Rebecca

Nothing surprises me on 'Happy Endings,' because the show - I think one of the awesome things about the show is that it's so open to doing anything. We could do a genre episode. We have the green light to do whatever we want. Mostly because no one's watching. ~ Adam Pally

A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman. ~ Mary Lascelles

Well, what's interesting, I try not to think about the radio when I'm writing a song. I want people to love the song, and that means it might not be exactly thinking about the radio, but it's thinking about your audience and saying, 'I want people to like this song after it's done.' ~ John Legend

Absurd. It was absurd to think that someone like that could have any power over him. Yet she would, if she won the auction.
He wanted her to. The thought swept Arin with a merciless, ugly joy. He'd never seen her before, but he guessed who she was: Lady Kestrel, General Trajan's daughter.
The crowd heard her bid. And at once it seemed that Arin was worth something after all. ~ Marie Rutkoski

Kindness will always attract kindness. ~ Sophocles

Life is mostly froth and bubble ~ Adam Lindsay Gordon

I have to balance the scales and there's a lot weighing in against me. ~ Karen Marie Moning