"The black, hungry roses that Redd sent snaking towards the princess were easily squashed, the orbs and and unmanned, airborne blades of effortlessly waved off, and the spears of black energy (Alyss was flattered, her aunt borrowing this idea from her) pinned motionless to the air by Alyss's own white spears with no trouble."

-- Frank Beddor

#Princess Quotes #Aunt Quotes #Air Quotes

“If you're a gardener, or creating a garden you're clearly looking to the future. You have a sense of your own future and a sense of yourself in that space. People coming here feel that hope, that renewal, and that sense of regeneration. They get their hands dirty and connect back to the ground, which is what we feel strongly about - giving everybody the opportunity to get connected to the earth.”
“If you want to make a difference in America, you need to be prepared for a very long, very frustrating slog.”
“I suppose I ought to think up some dramatic, quotable phrase for Public Information and the history books, but I'm damned if any of them come to mind. Besides, admitting the truth wouldn't sound too good (...) The truth, Russell, is that now the moment's here, I'm scared shitless. Somehow I don't think even Public Information could turn that into good copy.”

Source : "The Short Victorious War". Book by David Weber, 1994.
“The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.”
“Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment of women, moving women into the workplace; our feelings about our role in the world. All of that comes in a very direct way out of World War II.”
“Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.”
“The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them.”

Source : "A Mother's Advice to Her Daughter". Book by Anne Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, 1728.
“I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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