Flajnik Origin Quotes & Sayings

Annabelle's eyes stung as she stared at him, while need and inexhaustible tenderness gathered like an ache in her body. "I realized something," she said huskily, "when I was standing outside the foundry, watching it burn and knowing you were inside." She swallowed hard against the thickness in her throat. "I would rather have died in your arms, Simon, than face a lifetime without you. All those endless years ... all those winters, summers ... a hundred seasons of wanting you and never having you. Growing old, while you stayed eternally young in my memories." She bit her lip and shook her head, while her eyes flooded. "I was wrong when I told you that I didn't know where I belonged. I do. With you, Simon. Nothing matters except being with you. You're stuck with me forever, and I'll never listen when you tell me to go." She managed a tremulous smile. "So you may as well stop complaining and resign yourself to it. — Lisa Kleypas

...[H]e's so good and good people are usually happy. But do happy things happen to the good, or can the good make happiness out of unhappiness? — Dodie Smith

That part was easy. Tearing up the roots will be the hard part. — Ally Condie

Oral traditions of the islanders are obsessed with cannibalism; the most inflammatory taunt that could be snarled at an enemy was The flesh of your mother sticks between my teeth. — Jared Diamond

I felt a lot of ambivalence about going back to graduate school for a second MFA. The impulse was really the opposite from what it had been more than a decade before: I wanted to interrupt a career. — Garth Greenwell

I don't wear my faith on my sleeve, but I definitely do walk with it every day in my heart. — Niecy Nash

Incomparably greater than the power of Sauron, concentrated in the One Ring, Morgoth's power was dispersed into the very matter of Arda: The whole of Middle-earth was Morgoth's Ring. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I'd been a thriller reader all my life. — Lee Child

Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity. — Frederick Douglass

Bear the pain of longing silently, my heart
for this is the cure.
The ultimate sacrifice is to curb your desires
and surrender the ego. — Rumi

Would the believer, therefore, have his faith strengthened, he must especially, give time to God, who tries his faith in order to prove to His child, in the end, how willing He is to help and deliver him, the moment it is good for him. — George Muller

Hope is not mere wishful thinking. It is the precursor of a new dawn that slowly, steadily and unerringly comes to the fore and eventually grows into reality's existence. — Sri Chinmoy

No bodyguard can ever protect us from the gossips; because in the case of gossip, we are beaten in our absence! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you value someone, it merely shows that you truly have no idea about the person that they aren't showing you. — Lionel Suggs