Kribirsk Quotes & Sayings

Then, despite all my better judgement, I asked the question I'd wanted to ask for nearly a year. "You and Mal, back in Kribirsk-"
"It happened."
I knew that and I knew there had been plenty of others before her, but it still stung. Zoya glanced at me, her long black lashes sparkling with rain. "But never since," she said grudgingly, "and it hasn't been for lack of trying. If a man can say no to me, that's something."
I rolled my eyes. Zoya poked me in the arm with one long finger. "He hasn't been with anyone, you idiot. Do you know what the girls back at the White Cathedral called him? Beznako"
A lost cause. — Leigh Bardugo

There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective, that the war is over because that nation or planet has ceased to exist. What we do is entirely different. We make war as personal as a punch in the nose. We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point at a designated time - we've never been told to go down and kill or capture all left-handed redheads in a particular area, but if they tell us to, we can. We will. — Robert A. Heinlein

The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength. — Margaret Oliphant

Failure isn't fatal unless you let it be. — Mike Ditka

Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. — Kurt Vonnegut

If Wasp were writing field notes on herself, they'd read: plans attempted: 1000000 plans succeeded: 0 never learns. better off destroyed. — Nicole Kornher-Stace

My happiest hours are spent in school, surrounded by those I hope to benefit. — Dorothea Dix

I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility. — Jim Lehrer

Wounds may heal, but the scars remain. — Reyna Pryde