Jane Lindskold famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is no shame in strategic retreat if it lets you remain strong enough to go after the enemy later.
-- Jane Lindskold

#Strong #Enemy #Retreat
Is she become a rag doll? Are the wolves become children? It seems quite possible, there on the twilight fringes of dying. With some faint spark of herself, the little girl holds on to the idea. Even a rag doll has more life than does a dying child.
-- Jane Lindskold

#Girl #Children #Twilight
Well done, Sister," Blind Seer said. "I look forward to meeting this One above Ones. Now, you must make ready. I, of course, am already perfect.
-- Jane Lindskold

#Perfect #Looks #Done
For his part, Blind Seer had no difficulty accepting idleness. A wolf proverb stated: â€œHunt when hungry, sleep when not, for hunger always returns.
-- Jane Lindskold

#Sleep #Return #Hunger
Firekeeper still could not understand the human penchant for eating in company. Even less so, she could not understand the human desire to combine business and meals. True, a wolf pack shared a kill, but not from any great desire to do soâ€”rather because any who departed the scene would be unlikely to get a share... She struggled...not to bolt her food and almost always remembered that growling when a person spoke to you was not a proper response.
-- Jane Lindskold

#Departed #Desire #Meals
I thought," Shad said slowly, "that she was offended if you referred to Blind Seer or Elation as her pets.""True," Derian assured him. "Absolutely the correct etiquette-to her face. However, well... When I first met Firekeeper, less than a year ago, her relationships with animals fell into pretty much two categories: those you ate and those you befriended. I remember that she thought we were pretty clever for bringing horses along so we wouldn't need to hunt our meat. It took me a while to show her they had other uses.
-- Jane Lindskold

#Horse #Clever #Animal

Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.
Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.
Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?
How to achieve the moral breakdown of the enemy before the war has started - that is the problem that interests me. Whoever has experienced war at the front will want to refrain from all avoidable bloodshed.
I know I have plenty of enemies, but I'd rather be the most-hated winning coach in the country than the most-popular losing one.
When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Happy couples make it a habbit to refocus. Because it's quite normal to be distracted. So they talk. They get away for a while. They pray. They go on a marriage retreat. They take a second honeymoon or a 3rd, or 4th, or a 5th..
It is better to be an outcast, a stranger in oneâ€™s own country, than an outcast from oneâ€™s self. It is better to see what is about to befall us and to resist than to retreat into the fantasies embraced by a nation of the blind.
Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions.

Jane Lindskold famous quotes

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