"The room was quiet, the others flicking glances at me. I ignored them. After years in Sounis's palaces being eyed with disgust by my uncle and my own father and courtier after courtier, I assure you I am unrivaled at pretending not to notice other people's glances."

-- Megan Whalen Turner

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“I put my energy into writing songs. I have to carve out a living somehow doing this, and licensing is one way. It's hard to register what's "too much" for other people. I don't watch TV, so it's tough for me to gauge. I just take it as it comes, and don't put a whole lot of thought into it.”

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“A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.”
“... often analysis seems to be based on the assumption that future economic output is almost entirely determined by inexorable economic forces independently of government policy so that devoting more resources to one use inevitably detracts from availability for another.”
“We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.”

Source : Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.439
“And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish financier?”
“Sometimes it's all about the win, sometimes it's about the skiing.”
“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”
“The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent.”

Source : Thomas E. Sniegoski (2012). “The Fallen: The Fallen 1; The Fallen 2; The Fallen 3”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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