Aedan Quotes & Sayings

Are you planning to kiss me?' Aedan asked.
'No.' Emroy wrinkled a pimply nose.
'Then why are you standing so close?' Aedan's tone was perfect innocence. — Jonathan Renshaw

The tighter your grip, the less you have to hold.
-The Pythian Scrolls — Aedan Byrnes

As a small-town boy, Aedan had never really made friends; he had simply grown up with them. — Jonathan Renshaw

Aedan offered a grateful smile, but he knew the weight of the nobleman's word. Facts would not be determined by truth but by power. — Jonathan Renshaw

Aedan picked it up, looked around, and groaned. It was the biggest, most important-looking office he had ever found, which meant more trouble than he had yet managed to harvest. — Jonathan Renshaw

Been in the river, haven't you?"
Aedan nodded.
"A sad day for everyone downstream," she said — Jonathan Renshaw

I was thinking of making a drawing of Malik," she said. "He will be standing on a field of battle, taking off his helm and showing his pale skin. The soldiers around will be dropping their weapons and offering him medicine." Aedan laughed. — Jonathan Renshaw

I am so lonely without you, Aedan," Jane said simply.
"You truly want me?"
"More than anything. I'm only half without you."
"Then you are my woman." His words were finality, a bond he would not permit broken. She had given herself to his keeping. He would never let her go.
"And you'll never leave me?" she pressed.
"I'll stay with you for all of ever, lass."
Jane's eyes flared, and she looked at him strangely. "And then yet another day?" she asked breathlessly.
"Oh, aye. — Karen Marie Moning

And Aedan discovered that it only takes a single friend to put loneliness to flight. He would be able to face the next day. They both would. — Jonathan Renshaw

Finally, he knew the kind of loving that made two one and understood Jane was his world. His ocean, his country, his sun, his rain, his very heart. — Karen Marie Moning

Do you think," Aedan said, after a while, "that anger is wrong?"
"Don't know. Maybe it depends on how you use it."
"Or where it comes from?"
"What do you mean?" Lorrimer asked.
"Well, I used to think real men turned their anger into revenge, and that's what got them to be respected. But I tried it a few times and it didn't make me feel like a man any more than swearing or kicking the chickens. But when I saw that old woman today, the anger I felt was huge and it seemed like a right kind of anger. — Jonathan Renshaw

Aedan nodded, trying not to stare, failing.
"Supper will level your opinion of me."
It was true. There was plenty of stew to be had and Aedan went to bed hungry. — Jonathan Renshaw

Aedan had never felt embarrassed about his imagination. Without it there was no magic. — Jonathan Renshaw

He led them inside and began explaining the process, but there was a problem. What the boys heard was, "Over here is the clang! and if you clang! carefully you'll notice clang! bang! Can you all see it?" He was met with twenty blank stares. "Sorry Master Skeet," Hadley said. Clang! "Can we see what?" "Weren't you listening? I said this is the clang! bang! bang!" More blank stares Skeet was growing red. He turned a dangerous eye on the nearest striker, raised his voice and tried again, "The cling! bang! Oh for mercy's sake!" He whipped around and bellowed with such force that every hammer froze on its descent. "The next one of you mangy curs who uses his hammer while I'm talking is going to swallow it!" The response was impressive. Hammers were cautiously laid down. Apart from the rumble from the forges, the space was filled with a respectful silence. Aedan guessed that Skeet was known here and that he held an intimidating rank. "Now, as I said, — Jonathan Renshaw

Do not hire those who are incapable.
Do not fire those who are capable.
A small, devoted army is greater
than a large, indifferent one. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Being busy is not the same as being focused. Being focused means being here. — Augusten Burroughs

The goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue, would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me. — Oprah Winfrey

I don't care how unassailable it is," Aedan said, standing. "I'm assailing it. — Jonathan Renshaw

You would think,' Aedan said, 'that I'd feel good about this-I've grown while he, my old enemy, has shrunk. Yet all I feel is a terrible ache. I pity him, that he has been called by age to surrender his strength. — Jonathan Renshaw

Characters stretching their legs in some calm haven generally don't make for interesting protagonists. — Darin Strauss

But you can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth. — Adeline Yen Mah

We are not pleasant people here, for the story of war is always the story of hate; it makes no difference with whom one fights. The hate destroys you. — Agnes Newton Keith

Amazing, isn't it, when you think about it, how the world keeps on turning, no matter how fucked up things get?" In — Richard Russo

Thing to act. Act with thought. -The Pythian Scrolls.
Through the Oracle's Mist — Aedan Byrnes

Aedan paced and cradled his chin. He wasn't sure if the chin-cradling helped him think, but he had often seen William doing it when trying to solve some problem, and it had always looked so grand. — Jonathan Renshaw

Maybe it's the quiet," Aedan resumed. "Let's me think, or maybe it's the opposite of normal thinking, more like untangling. I'm comfortable in those spots. — Jonathan Renshaw

How could children have spotted what everyone else couldn't?"
"Because we haven't killed off our imaginations," Aedan mumbled behind a wrapping of arms and knees. — Jonathan Renshaw

Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans. — Rick Perry

Vicky always did have that kind of mind: since there was basically no activity going on inside her head, conversations went in there and came back out virtually untouched. — Tana French

Basically, when I was filming John Tucker the guy that I was seeing for two years was cheating on me. Sophia, Ashanti, and Arielle really became the same girls they are in the movie, and we became best friends. They were there for me so much. — Brittany Snow

Too fearful to intervene and hold back the tormenter, she was pleading instead with the victim to be more submissive. It was a solution that would resolve the conflict while entrenching the problem. Aedan didn't have the words to understand, but he could feel the wrongness of it. — Jonathan Renshaw

I want to tell him that I don't know what i feel. I want him but i'm frightened to want him. I don;t want my happiness to be entirely dependent on somebody else's to be a hostage to fortunes I cannot control. — Jojo Moyes

It was a land of shadows and ice.
Of gray. And grayer. And black.
-The Unseelie prison of Aedan — Karen Marie Moning

It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature. — Nikola Tesla