"You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want."

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Source : "Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale". Book by Holly Black, 2007.

Holly Black

#Want Quotes #Duty Quotes #Obligation Quotes

“The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love.”
“There's something great about being a really young actor because you don't have a chance to be nervous. You don't know anything yet. Whereas one of the big challenges as you go through - I've been doing acting professionally for 10 years now - is to not let all the things that you know hold you back and make you more nervous. Once you've had a few people tell you that they don't like your ideas, that voice in your head can creep in that says, "Don't tell them what you think."”
“Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.”

Source : John Lancaster Spalding (1899). “Things of the Mind”
“Snap your fingers and somebody runs / You don't care how they feel just as long as they come / Got your head in the stars now you've come this far / Just who do you think you are?”
“This is no time to be precious about locating the exact individuals directly involved in this particular terrorist attack.... We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.”
“He who talks much cannot always talk well. [It., Chi parla troppo non puo parlar sempre bene.]”
“Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment.”
“Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them.”

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