"Papa's in a bad way, Locke. I wanted to see you before you saw him - he has some...things he wishes to discuss with you. I want you to know that whatever he asks, I don't want you...for my sake...well, please, just agree. Please him, do you understand?" "No garrista who loves life has ever tried to do otherwise. You think I'm inclined to walk in on a day like today and deliberately twist his breeches? If your father says 'bark like a dog' I say 'What breed, Your Honour?"

-- Scott Lynch

#Dog Quotes #Father Quotes #Love Life Quotes

“Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!”
“Only when you're nervous do you get nasty.”

Source : Deborah Grey (2004). “Never retreat, never explain, never apologize: my life, my politics”
“Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.”
“A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.”

Source : Roman Jakobson, Krystyna Pomorska, Stephen Rudy (1987). “Language in Literature”, p.94, Harvard University Press
“There are positive and negative thoughts. And, hey, it doesn't cost you a cent more to think positively .”
“Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.”
“I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid.”

Source : Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.22, Macmillan
“I don't really consider myself to be famous.”

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