Aryal Quotes & Sayings

Last names ... they were like word parasites. They attached to people in strange ways, moved across cultural and political lines, traveled the world and reattached to others, certainly at whim and seemingly at random.
Why didn't anybody else see how creepy last names were? They labeled a person as coming from a particular class or geographical area or linked their identity to another person, as if someone's identity had no merit on its own unless it had latched on to another. — Thea Harrison

The word 'influenza' actually means a malign influence from the stars. — Jostein Gaarder

Behold the Power of the peanut. His body mass may be small, but his influence is mighty. The last holdout in the Tower has officially fallen to him.
(Said by Pia about the effect her son 'peanut' had on the Sentinel Aryal) — Thea Harrison

Try as I could - which wasn't very hard - I rarely ended up fantasising a markedly different life from the one that has been mine. I don't think this is complacency; it's more likely a lack of imagination, or ambition, or something. — Julian Barnes

The shackles." She stirred. "Aryal has both sets of chains, and the key," she told him, muffled against his skin. "She swears she'll find a way to destroy them. She's saying 'My Precious' a lot and talking about dropping them into a volcano. — Thea Harrison

Tiago smacked Aryal in the back of the head. It didn't look like a gentle blow. Touch her plate and die. — Thea Harrison

Goodness is no part of the definition of the God Hypothesis, merely a desirable add-on. — Richard Dawkins

When it was her turn to say good-bye, Aryal said, "Don't do anything I wouldn't do."
Niniane opened and closed her mouth. She said, "I have no idea how to respond to that. — Thea Harrison

One thing I do know about death. The "better" the person, the more loving and happy and caring, the less of a gap that person's death makes. — Lucia Berlin

All of Dragos's sentinels were mean and barbaric and sexy. Even that weird harpy-bitch Aryal, who she might have a teensy girl crush on. You know, in a totally hetero kind of way. — Thea Harrison

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories. — Thomas Keller

I wonder if she's infatuated enough to let me lock her in a box with me on a cool fall day and make love like America depends on us. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Beings are owners of their actions, heirs of their actions; they originate from their actions, are bound to their actions, have their actions as their refuge. It is action that distinguishes beings as inferior and superior. — Gautama Buddha

Dude, you ever taste harpy's blood? We're rarer than shit so I'm betting not. Want to go out for a drink sometime? If you put out, I might let you have a sip. — Thea Harrison

Aryal yawned. She had stretched out on the floor, her long legs crossed at the ankle. She said in a drowsy voice, I could start bitch-slapping people. Sooner or later somebody would squawk. — Thea Harrison

Niniane thought she saw something odd as Aryal looked back at them. The harpy's eyes were narrowed, her angular face white with strain. Niniane might have been mistaken. Dangling upside down, everything looked wrong. People moved in weird ways, their smiles all turned down, and liquid spilled from drinks falling up. It was like looking in a carnival hall of mirrors in a dream. — Thea Harrison

Or a stuffed animal. I would've cuddled with it at night." I sighed heavily. "Oh well. I guess that's never going to happen." Arabella giggled. Grandma pointed the breaker bar at her. "Quiet in the peanut gallery. — Ilona Andrews

It was another nervous Tim Henman match - I'm not sure how he manages to get through them, let alone us! — Sue Barker

Aryal whispered, If I start slapping people, I might not be able to stop. — Thea Harrison

If you are a person who wants an uncommonly fine life, if you're willing to put in some time each day to do that, then that will happen to you. — Frederick Lenz