Jules Ember Quotes

A drop of sweetness mixes into the grief inside me. It's only a drop in a sea, but in that moment, it feels like everything. ~ Sara Holland

Others in the room are listening now. Though I can't see it, I can feel it. ~ Sara Holland

He's not," I tell myself. The lie freezes in the winter air, falls to the ground like snow. I kick at it with the toe of my boot. ~ Sara Holland

Recovering from a gunshot wound is not a vacation. You need to, like, write that on your hand or something. ~ Suzanne Brockmann

My arms wrapped about little Jala, little sister, hot with fever but the fire grew too hot, and so, in my arms, her flesh cooled to dawn-stone, mother keening - Jala was the ember now lifeless, and from that day, in mother's eyes, I became naught but its bed of ash. ~ Steven Erikson

I found no oceans
in your eyes,
no windy storms
or starry skies.
Neither a pearl
nor an ember
I could see,
just the perfect
reflection of me. ~ Akash Mandal

Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least. ~ Jules Michelet

Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished.
Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but
sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up from the faintest ember to
illuminate the darkness,
to burn in spite of overwhelming odds. ~ Karen Hesse

You are the only one I can trust about this, Ash said. Which was maybe just another version of what Cathy Kiplinger had said to Jules: you are weak. ~ Meg Wolitzer

Greg Broadmore's fertile and twisted imagination has conjoined multiple genres, memories, and a sharp sense of pulp, colonialist nostalgia/parody in this lavish, fully realized, imaginative tour-de-force. It's Jules Verne meets Fritz Lang meets Tintin.
It's beyond Steampunk. It's clearly an insatiable passion for the talismans of a bygone civilization and it's slavish addiction to the early industrial age in all it's filigreed, ignorant glory. Greg has raised the bar. ~ Adam Savage

If you are not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside? ~ Jules Feiffer

Style means the right word. The rest matters little. ~ Jules Renard

What we had might not be forever, but it was now, and it was everything I needed. ~ Julia Ember

Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself. ~ Jules Renard

There is value in long years of obscurity, if one doesn't go insane or suicidal, in that, simply because nobody is looking, the habit of fooling around and trying things out gets ingrained. ~ Jules Olitski

And some soon will learn that even an ember in the ashes can still ignite a great blaze. ~ George R R Martin

Oh sure, the songs have all totally evolved. I mean, when you're playing the same songs night in night out, they take on a life of their own. I can't even remember what I wrote some of them about now! ~ Gary Jules

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

When one has taken root, one puts out branches. ~ Jules Verne

People don't come to Asheville very often, and they don't know I'm there. I enjoy it. I like it. ~ Jules Shear

Now, if the question were to destroy a lion, a tiger, a cat, a hyena, I could understand it; but to deprive an antelope or a gazelle of life, to no other purpose than the gratification of your instincts as a sportsman, seems hardly worth the trouble. ~ Jules Verne

No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air. ~ Charles Eisenstein

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe. ~ Jules Romains

Fear of death translates into a fear of living. ~ Jules Shuzen Harris Sensei

Even if it had not been possible to reproduce the disease in animals and consequently to verify the hypothesis, this simple observation would have been sufficient to demonstrate the way in which the disease was propagated. ~ Charles Jules Henry Nicole

There were also books of fairy tales, The Arabian Nights, James Payn's work, Anthony Trollope's Vicar of Bullhampton, Thomas Hardy's Desperate Remedies, a pile of Wilkie Collins - The New Magdalen, The Law and the Lady, The Two Destinies, and a new Jules Verne novel titled Child of the Cavern that she itched to get her hands on. And then, there it was - A Tale of Two Cities. ~ Cassandra Clare

On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality! ~ Jules Verne

Everyone grieves in different ways. For some, it could take longer or shorter. I do know it never disappears. An ember still smolders inside me. Most days, I don't notice it, but, out of the blue, it'll flare to life. ~ Maria V. Snyder

Maxims were like neural shortcuts, like icons on a desktop that instantly connect you to a body of information. ~ Jules Evans

Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters. ~ Jules Renard

If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning. ~ Jules Verne

The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin. ~ Jules Verne

Now, when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted. ~ Jules Verne

No one has ever seen anything like it; but the sight may cost us dear. And, if I must say all, I think we are seeing here things which God never intended man to see. ~ Jules Verne

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me. ~ Jules Verne

Those boys got a way about 'em, Jules. They don't fuck around. They see somethin' they want, they get it. They're fuckin' famous for it. A woman don't stand a chance. He seem interested?"
" ... honestly, there's nothing to worry about. We went our separate ways. I'll be smarter, I'll be more quiet, I'll be
"
"Laid, good and simple. Crowe got a look at you, you're his. ~ Kristen Ashley

He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem. ~ Jules Verne

Emma: Jules, I know you said Diana refused to try to take the Institute, but do you know why...
Jules: No, On the topic of confessions, were you planning on telling the rest of Mark's family why you dumped their brother with no warning?
Emma: You're angry that Mark and I broke up?
Jules: I guess you've dumped two of their brothers, if we're really counting. Who's next? Ty?
Emma: Screw you, Julian Blackthorn. ~ Cassandra Clare

He who knows how to be poor knows everything. ~ Jules Michelet

If the thing is feasible, the first to do it ought to be an Englishman. ~ Jules Verne

Died in 1814. He was ~ Jules Verne

This world was huge. There must be another place in it for the people of Ember. ~ Jeanne DuPrau

Sorry I'm not your boyfriend. And I mean that in all sorts of ways. ~ Amy Plum

Courbet comes in 1849 with the intention of overthrowing past art and constructing it anew. While he speaks only of realism, of which he proclaims himself the messiah, his pictures show pre-eminently those qualities which are learned in the museums. ~ Jules Breton

For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond - or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever - 'is a pretty good political reporter,' the default response would be, 'but he's no David Broder.' ~ Jack Germond

Maple. Maypole
Catch and carry.
Ash and Ember.
Elderberry.
Woolen. Woman.
Moon at night.
Willow. Window.
Candlelight.
Fallow farrow.
Ash and oak.
Bide and borrow.
Chimney smoke.
Barrel. Barley.
Stone and stave.
Wind and water.
Misbehave. ~ Patrick Rothfuss