Deverin Cabbagestalk Quotes & Sayings

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is. — Tim O'Brien

He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. — Melina Marchetta

He, the One, the bringer of all to enlightenment, had an earthy name.
His name was Jimmy. — Teresa Lo

Briony scared?" said Eldric. "I've never seen anyone less scared in my life. She has nerves of iron. — Franny Billingsley

There was no miracle that night ... — Ed King

But you just know when someone's there, don't you? You can feel them in the house, as if--oh, I don't know, I'm an old woman rambling--but it's as if your heart knows that their heart is beating somewhere and everything's all right. — Jacqueline Winspear

The score," the megaphone on the ferry around Manhattan said, from time to time, without further explanation, "is one to nothing." to the foreigners, unaware perhaps that a World Series was in progress, this may have seemed an obscure instruction, or a commentary on the sights. "In the top of the fifth," it said, with some excitement, as we rounded Wall Street, "the score is five to one. — Renata Adler

Plan? My plan is to die in a ball of superheated plasma. — James S.A. Corey

Americans who have travelled and who have English friends know we are not necessarily all baddies, but I think that seeing us being so incessantly nasty on screen has a drip, drip, drip effect on the rest of them. — David Warner

Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't. — Bill Hybels