"A conflagration always made such a nice backdrop to a battle. Fire made everything so much more joyously apocalyptic."

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Source : Stuart Hill (2011). “The Icemark Chronicles #2: Blade of Fire”, p.683, Scholastic Inc.

Stuart Hill

#Nice Quotes #Fire Quotes #Battle Quotes

“Now. Maybe you think it is arrogant or self centered, or ridiculous for me to believe that God bothered to wiggle a cheap bolt out of my new used car because he or she needed to keep me away for a few days until just the moment when my old friend most needed me to help her mother move into whatever comes next. Maybe nothing conscious helped to stall me so that I would be there when I could be most useful. Or maybe it did. Iâ€™ll never know for sure. And anyway, it doesnâ€™t really matter.”
“Thank goodness I've saved my money.”
“Receive a guest with the same attitude you have when alone. When alone, maintain the same attitude you have in receiving guests.”
“The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of oneâ€™s own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable being uncomfortable.”
“In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.”
“Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone.”

Source : Charles Alexander Eastman (2003). “The Soul of the Indian”, p.12, Courier Corporation
“To acquire love... fill yourself up with it until you become a magnet.”
“What's difficult in life is to stay centered when somebody does or says something that tempts us to close our hearts because their heart was closed. That is hard. But that is also how we grow. We go through those circumstances in order to evolve into people who can hold to our loving center no matter what the world throws us.”

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