"My sisters and I cannot spend any substantial time searching for Wickham, as we are each commanded by His Majesty to defend Hertfordshire from all enemies until such time as we are dead, rendered lame, or married."

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Source : Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.252, Quirk Books

Seth Grahame-Smith

#Enemy Quotes #Majesty Quotes #Lame Quotes

“Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.”
“Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?”
“The midwife of history is violence.”
“Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.”
“...you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place.”

Source : Terry Goodkind (2015). “Blood of the Fold”, p.465, RosettaBooks
“How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.”
“The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.”
“I like to prove things wrong.”

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