Excerpted From South Quotes & Sayings

I was done with hesitation. It wasn't just that we'd run out of options, or that so much was riding on the firebird's power. I'd simply grown ruthless enough or selfish enough to take another creature's life. But I missed the girl who had shown the stag mercy, who had been strong enough to turn away from the lure of power, who had believed in something more. Another casualty of this war. — Leigh Bardugo

I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it. — Steve Buscemi

Slapped her then I asked her what's my name. She said N-I-C, the president of the N-Y-C. — Nicki Minaj

Walk it how I talk it, so I talk it how I live it. — Wiz Khalifa

I think about how sometimes, no matter how convinced you are that your life will turn out a certain way, all that certainty can be washed away with a simple change in tide. I — Colleen Hoover

That Castrima has lasted this far, a comm of stills who have repeatedly failed to lynch the roggas openly living among them, is miraculous. Even if "hasn't yet committed genocidal slaughter" is a low bar to hop, other communities haven't even managed that much. You'll give credit where it's due. It — N.K. Jemisin

Any but the most brutish of men must be touched with a certain awe or wonder at the baring of a woman's naked soul. — Robert E. Howard

Less than a year after loading the company up with debt, Romney and Bain gave themselves bonuses four times bigger than the $8 million they had put into the deal. — Jennifer Granholm

I liked the fact that 'My Week With Marilyn' wasn't a biopic. — Kenneth Branagh

The Holy One is great Healer. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Napoleon loved only himself, but, unlike Hitler, he hated nobody. — J. Christopher Herold