Aquilla Quotes & Sayings

If someone has a foot fetish, I'd have an in. — Torrie Wilson

It's a trick question, Aquilla. A Mask is not made. She is remade. First she is destroyed. Stripped down to the trembling child that lives at her core. It doesn't matter how strong she thinks she is. Blackcliff diminishes, humiliates, and humbles her." "But if she survives, she is reborn. She rises from the shadow world of failure and despair so that she might become as fearful as that which destroyed her. So that she might know darkness and use it as her scim and shield in her mission to serve the Empire. — Sabaa Tahir

Exhaustion is temporary. Pain is temporary. But Helene dying because I didn't find a way to get her back on time - that's permanent. — Sabaa Tahir

We thought the fireworks were marvelous," said Mort. "And I expect they'll soon be able to rebuild the outer wall. — Terry Pratchett

We match each other stroke for stroke until I get a hit on her right arm.

She tries to switch sword arms, but I jab my scim at her wrist faster than she can parry. Her scim goes flying, and I tackle her. Her white-blonde hair tumbles free of her bun.

"Surrender!" I pin her down at the wrists, but she trashes and rips one arm free, scrabbling for a dagger at her waist. Steel stabs at my ribs, and seconds later, I am on my back with a blade at my throat.

"Ha!" She leans down, her hair falling around us like a shimmering silver curtain. — Sabaa Tahir

Over the moon about strong support for the National Health Service - an institution I will defend to my dying day, second only to Everton FC. — Andy Burnham

His eyes are unfathomably sad as he lifts my chin. "Most people," Cain says, "are nothing but glimmers in the great darkness of time. But you, Helene Aquilla, are no swift-burning spark. You are a torch against the night - if you dare to let yourself burn." "Just — Sabaa Tahir

Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession. — Sarah Josepha Hale

Rage colors her every movement. Rage that has nothing to do with her so-called bodyguards and everything to do with me and her and the confusion rolling around inside the both of us.
This should be interesting — Sabaa Tahir

...despite the rain, I felt I had never been more content. I had gold, a friend, a horse, and brandy. I could envisage no end to my life but a bullet, yet even if I never had more than this, it would be enough. — Cherie Pugh

It is nothing but a breath, the void. — Rainer Maria Rilke

But you, Helene Aquilla, are no swift-burning spark. You are a torch against the night - if you dare to let yourself burn. — Sabaa Tahir

Laia and Helene: They're so different. I like that Laia says things I don't expect, that she speaks almost formally, as if she's telling a story. I like that she defied my mother to go to the Moon Festival, whereas Helene always obeys the Commandant. Laia is the wild dance of a Tribal campfire, while Helene is the cold blue of an alchemist's flame.

But why am I even comparing them? I've know Laia a few days and Helene all my life. Helene's no passing attraction. She's family. More than that. She's part of me. — Sabaa Tahir

But you are not finished. You are my masterpiece, Helene Aquilla, but I have just begun. If you survive, you shall be a force to be reckoned with in this world. But first you will be unmade. First, you will be broken. — Sabaa Tahir

Veturius is a Mask like the rest of us, yes. Bold, brave, strong, swift. But those were afterthoughts for him. Elias sees people as they should be, not as they are. He laughs at himself. He gives of himself - in everything he does. [...] He's the things that I can't be. He's good. — Sabaa Tahir

There is more to this life than love, Helene Aquilla. There is duty. Empire. Family. Gens. The men you lead. The promises you make. — Sabaa Tahir

It makes no difference what you wear, really. I'll put you in a dark grey. I believe I have some left over from a funeral. says the dressmaker. — Maryrose Wood

There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own. — Robert W. Welch Jr.