"I understood that Valekâ€™s loyalty to the Commander was without question. His blue eyes held a fierce determination and I knew in my soul that Valek would take his own life after he had taken mine."

-- Maria V. Snyder

#Loyalty Quotes #Determination Quotes #Taken Quotes

“The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that people share, that people can be reached, that people can be touched and even in some cases changed. So many of the things in our world lead us to despair. It seems to me that the final symptom of despair is silence, and that storytelling is one of the sustaining arts; itâ€™s one of the affirming arts. A writer may have a certain pessimism in his outlook, but the very act of being a writer seems to me to be an optimistic act.”
“What you said hurt me very much. I cried all the way to the bank.”
“I am not strict vegan, because I'm a hedonist pig. If I see a big chocolate cake that is made with eggs, I'll have it.”
“One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.”
“Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.”
“Sarah Palin and her virtual burqa have me and my friends retching into our handbags. She's such a power-mad, backwater beauty-pageant casualty, it's easy to write her off and make fun of her. But in reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.”

Source : "Pissed about Palin". www.salon.com. September 10, 2008.
“One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent”
“You develop faith by doing things that require faith.”

Source : John H. Groberg (1993). “The Other Side of Heaven”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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