"I'm missing something, aren't I?" "Brains", he snapped. "And survival instinct. The Hawklord's been waiting for you for three hours." "Tell him I'm dead."

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Source : Michelle Sagara (2009). “Chronicles of Elantra bundle: Cast in Shadow\Cast in Courtlight\Cast in Secret”, p.8, LUNA

Michelle Sagara

#Waiting Quotes #Missing Quotes #Brain Quotes

“Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.”
“One does not avoid incompetence if one makes an attempt whose likelihood of success is too low. This seems little more than analytic: when the performance is in a domain that imposes standards of risk, attempts may or may not meet such standards. And the relevant competence of agents then includes reliably enough meeting those standards.”
“When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind.”
“A man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed to make up a man. Thus, finally, all things meet in all things, but we need a Prometheus to distill it.”

Source : "The Other World: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon". Book by Cyrano de Bergerac, 1657.
“Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.”
“A commitment to love and justice demands the transformation of social structures as well as of hearts.”
“Didn't you ever have a father yourself? You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.' So I figured it's because I never had a father that I don't want one now. A person can't miss something she never had.”

Source : Rebecca Stead (2010). “When You Reach Me/First Light”, p.42, Wendy Lamb Books
“Before you look for validation in others, try and find it in yourself”

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