"Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive."

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Source : Mercedes Lackey, Rosemary Edghill (2001). “Spirits White as Lightning”, p.444, Baen Publishing Enterprises

Mercedes Lackey

#Adventure Quotes #Alive Quotes #Yeah Quotes

“I smile all the time, even when I'm in a bad mood. I always try to keep a smile on my face.”
“Even if you have a brain predisposed to liberalism, you might end up with some conservative friends or find inspiring conservative role models who could be very influential on you, and that could send you down a different track in life.”
“I was taught very early on how you treat people is actually what matters.”
“Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.”
“I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.”
“With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.”
“I'll suffer no daughter of mine to play the fool with her heart, indeed! She shall marry for the purpose for which matrimony was ordained amongst people of birth--that is, for the aggrandisement of her family, the extending of their political influence--for becoming, in short, the depository of their mutual interest. These are the only purposes for which persons of rank ever think of marriage.”

Source : Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1881). “Marriage [by S.E. Ferrier]. Edinb. ed”
“I bear to the wisdom of Sir Philip Sidney, who said that next to hunting he liked hawking worst. However, though he may have fallen into as hyperbolical an extreme, yet who can put too great a scorn upon their folly, that, to bring home a rascal deer, or a few rotten conies, submit their lives to the will or passion of such as may take them under a penalty no less slight than there is discretion shown in exposing them.”

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