"Son, you'll know you're in love when a woman's voice settles into your spine."

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Source : David Weber, Eric Flint (2003). “Crown of Slaves”, p.261, Baen Books

David Weber

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“I was not sorry when my brother died”

Source : "Nervous Conditions". Book by Tsitsi Dangarembga, 1988.
“There is no good war or bad peace”
“I don't like my movies. I prefer John Ford's movies. I've made some movies that are interesting, or that have some point, or are more or less beautiful. But I've never made anything big to me, from my point of view. "Big" like John Ford or someone of that kind. I say John Ford because he is my favorite director.”

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“There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.”
“I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a castawayâ€™s worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little. Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming oneâ€™s life away.”

Source : "Life of Pi". Book by Yann Martel, September 11, 2001.
“One day they might. I accept that in the short term the consequences are terrible. No one minimises those and I'm not seeking to do so. But what I am saying is that this is a country that has been brutalised for decades by this appalling regime and that the restoration of that country to its own people, the possibility of their deciding their future... and indeed the way in which they go about thier lives, ultimately, yes, that will be a better place for people in Iraq.”
“Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of.”
“The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.”

Source : Nathanael Emmons (1842). “The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D.: With a Memoir of His Life [written by Himself]”, p.135

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