Bopha Chrea Quotes & Sayings

He considered for a moment, then started to play a piece that was very familiar to Ruth, although she had no idea what it was. It was lilting and wistful, and she could have sung the melody if she had wished.
"Alright?" He raised his eyebrows inquiringly.
"Yes. Exactly."
It was effortless and perfect, and he played it through to the end, closing with the softest and most delicate chords, which hung and faded in the quiet hall like the grains of dust raining through the evening light. Ruth was touched. It was all she had wanted. He did not move until there was complete silence again, then he closed the lid without saying anything, and stood up, shoving back the chair. ... "What was that piece?"
"A Brahms waltz."
"Hasn't it got a name?" she wanted it to remember.
"Number fifteen. Opus thirty-nine."
It hadn't sounded like numbers to Ruth. — K.M. Peyton

Design - that is, utility enhanced by significance - has become an essential aptitude for personal fulfillment and professional success — Daniel H. Pink

Leadership defined: An equal and dual commitment to both results and relationships without compromising one for the other. — Al Ritter

Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father. — Brigham Young

Growing up is simply getting old. Growing up is when you don't believe anymore — J.M. Barrie

The birth and rebirth of all nature, / The passing of winter and spring, / We share with the life universal, / Rejoice in the magical ring. — Doreen Valiente

There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred. — Gary Bauer

I laugh at myself.
I don't take myself completely seriously.
I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to ... you have to laugh, especially at yourself. — Madonna

I blamed you for what other dragons did. Instead of judging you by your actions and heart, I judged you by theirs and by my own fear. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

As to religion a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in god and hate a saint. — Alexander Hamilton

For any man to match above his rank is but to sell his liberty. — Philip Massinger

Red hair like yours is unusual in all corners of the world. Other folk have often feared the red-haired as witches, or called them soul-less... But, it's the perfect color for a mage!

Red is the color of the Earth itself, and of the fire that burns within it -- and of the blood in our own veins"

- Lindel, Ancient Magus Bride, V4 — Kore Yamazaki

I'm also old ... and my own gift for writing fantasy grows out of very literal-minded, pragmatic soil: the things I do when I'm not telling stories have always been pretty three-dimensional. I used to say that the only strong attraction reality ever had for me was horses and horseback riding, but I've also been cooking and going for long walks since I was a kid (yes, the two are related), and I'm getting even more three dimensionally biased as I get older - gardening, bell ringing ... piano playing ... And the stories I seem to need to write seem to need that kind of nourishment from me - how you feed your story telling varies from writer to writer. My story-telling faculty needs real-world fresh air and experiences that create calluses (and sometimes bruises). — Robin McKinley

What the fuck happened to Smith?" He just turned into my obsession. That's what happened. Bric — J.A. Huss

People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us ... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of. — Gregory Maguire