Gods Of Jade And Shadow Quotes & Sayings

Her childhood had been magical, hours spent in ecstatic loneliness in the apple orchard, dreaming of foreign lands and wild adventures. Everything was new, down to bird song and grass blades. By the time she had reached adulthood, the town around her was like a grandmother who had used up all her stories and now simply rocked on the porch. The same flowers, the same streets, year after year. She longed for someone more exotic. A prince. A pirate. — Kathy Hepinstall

By the time I was a teenager, my desire to be daring and taste everything got me in trouble. Too often, I was in the company of kids my parents would call 'wild.' — Marlee Matlin

There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum. — Florence King

Don't marry so you can stop pursuing women. Marry so you can perfect the pursuit of ONE woman for a lifetime. — John Piper

It is now conceded that all idea of British intervention is at an end ... I want to hug the army of the Potomac. I want to get the whole army of Vicksburg drunk at my own expense. I want to fight some small man and lick him. — Henry Adams

If we were to compile a list of the ways in which the United States has made both itself and the wider world a better place, then at or very near the top would be its commitment to universal education. — Timothy Noah

When God gives you an inch, don't take a mile. — Giovannino Guareschi

I study these things.I'm an academic.I don't get tangled up in trivial matters of the heart. — Lauren Kate

God created whammy bars for people who don't know how to solo. — Dave Mustaine