"Yes." His gaze grew distant. "If I'd have the chance, if my position permitted, I would have pleaded with her not to accept the mission because of the danger, and because I couldn't bear the thought of..." "Of losing her?"

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Source : Kristen Britain (2011). “Blackveil: Book Four of Green Rider”, p.314, Penguin

Kristen Britain

#Bears Quotes #Losing Quotes #Chance Quotes

“A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing.”
“Dior really was a savior. He almost single-handedly revived women's interest in clothes.”
“Good-bye broadcast, Hello, conversation.”

Source : Shel Israel (2009). “Twitterville: How Businesses Can Thrive in the New Global Neighborhoods”, p.14, Penguin
“Virginia and Maryland attorneys argued this is a national problem and needs a national solution. I'm hoping that with a federal court agreeing this is inequitable, Congress will now act and do the right thing for the District.”
“You have to invest something [in your work]. If you don't risk something that really matters to you - like your integrity, or your pride, or your time, or your security, or your reputation - if you don't risk yourself, you can hear it right away.”
“Anyway, what is the soul but a dream of itself?”

Source : Alicia Ostriker (1982). “A Woman Under the Surface: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.47, Princeton University Press
“Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this.”
“Am I missing something because of my lack of education? Being an intellectual - I'm not. So I hire him as a corner man, like a boxer; he watches me and tells me what I do wrong before I go in for the next round. Barry thought he was going to write what became Executioner's Song, and I told him he wasn't going to. And Barry's closest friend was Joan Didion.”

Source : Interview with Suzanne Snider, believermag.com. May 2010.

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