Arvskifte Quotes & Sayings

I love every single character in my books. Killing a character of causes me physical pain... It's like ripping a band-aid off too fast. — B.A. Gabrielle

We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my generation. We do our own research. Marketing research companies, I think, are relatively academic. — Zong Qinghou

It is a balsam," answered Don Quixote, "the receipt of which I have in my memory, with which one need have no fear of death, or dread dying of any wound; and so when I make it and give it to thee thou hast nothing to do when in some battle thou seest they have cut me in half through the middle of the body - as is wont to happen frequently, - but neatly and with great nicety, ere the blood congeal, to place that portion of the body which shall have fallen to the ground upon the other half which remains in the saddle, taking care to fit it on evenly and exactly. Then thou shalt give me to drink but two drops of the balsam I have mentioned, and thou shalt see me become sounder than an apple. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

You were always meant to be mine." His eyes burned, his chest so painful that it felt as if his heart had burst. "Whether it's for a year or a century, it doesn't diminish who and what we are together. — Nalini Singh

Honesty scares quite a lot of people. — Beth Myrle Rice

The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn't sin but wants to sin. — Criss Jami

People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds. — Han Suyin

To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice. — Anais Nin

He had very few criticisms to make of Precious Ramotswe, his wife and founder of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, but if one were to make a list of her faults - which would be a minuscule document, barely visible, indeed, to the naked eye - one would perhaps have to include a tendency (only a slight tendency, of course) to claim that things that she happened to believe were well known. — Alexander McCall Smith

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. — Edmund Burke