"There are four things that make a man fight as you just did," the duke explained to Rumbold. "Love, despair, anger, or insanity." Erik counted them off on his fingers. "Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it."

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Source : Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Alethea Kontis

#Taken Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Men Quotes

“Most extreme acts of anti-Semitism go beyond the acts of anti-Semitism by native Europeans.”
“We must live like angels and produce like the devil!”
“A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.”
“I allowed social media to define what I thought of my body. And now I realize that no matter how thin you are, someone will call you fat. No matter how beautiful you are, someone will call you ugly. But you can't spend your time worrying about that. You're just not going to please the world.”
“Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.”
“The Labor roots are very strong.Paul Keating, made a comment several years ago about looking at that dragging yourself out of poverty, dragging yourself out of that situation.”
“The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands.”
“Anymore, no one's mind is their own.”

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