"Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well."

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Source : "Daughter of Smoke and Bone". Book by Laini Taylor, September 27, 2011.

Laini Taylor

#Angel Quotes #Once Upon A Time Quotes #Devil Quotes

“A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential. A coach helps you measure your performance against your strengths instead of against someone else's. A coach will know what you are capable of and will push you to your limit.”
“Therefore 'Christ hath tasted death for every man:' not only for all kinds of men, as some vainly talk, but for every one, of all kinds; the benefit of whose offering is not only extended to such, who have the distinct outward knowledge of his death and sufferings, as the same is declared in the scriptures, but even unto those who are necessarily excluded from the benefit of this knowledge by some inevitable accident.”

Source : Robert Barclay (1850). “An Apology for the Christian Divinity: As the Sameis Held Forth and Preached by the People Called, in Scorm Quakers, Being a Full Explanation and Vindication of Their Principles and Doctrines”, p.13
“If you have debt I'm willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.”
“If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.”
“For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement to what I imagine is felt by an athlete warming up for a competition, a mountain climber preparing for the ascent: it is the beginning of a process whose outcome is unknown, one that promises the thrill and elation of success but may as easily end in bitter disappointment. Committed readers realize at a certain point that literature is where we have learned a good part of the little we know about living.”

Source : Edith Grossman (2010). “Why Translation Matters”, p.26, Yale University Press
“I went through a phase where I was sick of acting, I didn't want to do it anymore, I was bored with it and then I tried directing a movie and I was like: "Shoot, get back over there!" It made me appreciate acting more.”
“Our words can have power that we donâ€™t think we have in everyday life. Anyone can make a difference!”

Source : "Amazing Kid! Spotlight on Adora Svitak, age 12, Amazing Young Educator, Author and Speaker". Interview with Kasy Dallman, mag.amazing-kids.org. September 2010.
“Brethren, the just man shall scarcely be saved. What, then, will become of the sinner?”

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