"Your fey cousin here has the miraculous ability to hold his liquor--and mine, and yours, and the king's, and half the country's, I expect."

--

Source : Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.238, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Alethea Kontis

#Country Quotes #Cousin Quotes #Kings Quotes

“If you're trying to forge bonds on something other than kinship, and forge a tribal identity on something other than relatedness, conformity is a good way to do it. And if you're wealthy, you can do it with a very expensive It bag, or whether it's Vuitton or Valentino at the moment, and it's a way to signal to one another, We're part of this tribe.”
“I get up because there is just so much out there and you just don't know what's going to happen, that's the great thing.”
“That excites me, working with really excellent people, be it wonderful directors or actors or cinematographers and especially writers. My work life is going to a set and having these great experiences and coming home shifted by them.”
“What happens when you let go, when your strength leaves you and you sink into darkness, when there's nothing that you or anyone else can do, no matter how desperate you are, no matter how you try? Perhaps it's then, when you have neither pride nor power, that you are saved, brought to an unimaginably great reward.”
“Just because a marriage ended didn't mean that it hadn't been happy at times.”
“In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments.”
“The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera.”
“Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn't work, and that it's not their job. Their job is to control themselves.”

Source : Danny Silk, Bob Hasson (2017). “The Business of Honor: Restoring the Heart of Business”, p.41, BookBaby

You may also like:

Cat Rambo
Fiction writer
Catherynne M. Valente
Novelist
Elizabeth Bear
Author
Jay Lake
Fiction writer
Ken Liu
Fiction writer
Mira Grant
Author
Nancy Kress
Fiction writer
Saladin Ahmed
Fiction writer
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Writer