Disenchantments Characters Quotes & Sayings

I have people introducing themselves to me: 'I am your publicist; what can I do for you?' But I have never learned how to use a publicist. — Mary Balogh

I feel certain God loves me just the way I am, and I have a huge sense of calling to communicate that to young people. The Church's teaching was the reason that I lived in so much shame and isolation and pain for all those years. But rather than abandon it and say it's broken, I want to be part of the change. — Vicky Beeching

Long legs and longer arms, each tipped with a row of black talons. Sinewy. Wiry. And above all, humanoid, its skin in the sunlight as translucent as a baby mouse's - mapped with a network of blue veins and purple arteries and even its heart faintly visible as a pinkish throb just right of center mass. snarling as strings of bloody saliva dangled from the corners of its lipless mouth, creamy eyes hard-focused on its target. — Blake Crouch

The fact was that, as droves of demon kings had noticed, there was a limit to what you could do to a soul with, e.g., red-hot tweezers, because even fairly evil and corrupt souls were bright enough to realize that since they didn't have the concomitant body and nerve endings attached to them there was no real reason, other than force of habit, why they should suffer excruciating agony. So they didn't. Demons went on doing it anyway, because numb and mindless stupidity is part of what being a demon is all about, but since no one was suffering they didn't enjoy it much either and the whole thing was pointless. Centuries and centuries of pointlessness. — Terry Pratchett

Few of us are granted the grace to know ourselves, and until we do, maybe the best we can do is be consistent. — Andre Agassi

The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry. — Charles Darwin

I don't have political agendas. I have social agendas. — Will.i.am

You can feel bad... I mean, that's not illegal. — Zadie Smith

And at once he went on with his burden, as though afraid that he might already have said too much in this country where the past was sharp splinters embedded in men's minds and an ill-judged word a false step in the dark. — Richard Adams

I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope. — Story Musgrave

One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious. — Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand

It is so sweet, amid all the disenchantments of life, to be able to dwell in thought upon noble characters, pure affections, and pictures of happiness. — Gustave Flaubert

A human's best training is with his shadow. You have to fight with your shadow. — Manuel Rivas

Why climb the corporate ladder when you can build an elevator in your own building? — Joshua E. Leyenhorst