Merik Quotes & Sayings

Merik had seen potential trade for Nubrevna where there was none. He'd seen a navy that had "needed his leadership" when it hadn't. He'd seen a selfish domna in Safiya fon Hasstrel, a frustrating Threadwitch in Iseult det Midenzi, and then an inconsequential ship's boy in Cam - yet none of those presumptions had proved true. — Susan Dennard

The shanty soon ended, but Ryber kept pounding the drum and hollered, "'The Maidens North of Lovats!'" - which Merik knew was her favorite song, since she was a maiden from north of Lovats. — Susan Dennard

In that moment he had loved her far more than he had ever done when they were together and free. Also he knew that somewhere or other she was still alive and needed his help. — George Orwell

Take the god's gift. Become the Fury.
It was time to become the monster Merik had been all along. No more numbed distance. No more fighting the Nihar temper. Only vicious, hungry heat.
One for the sake of many; vengeance for those he'd lost. — Susan Dennard

I'm a true fan of animation, and it's my livelihood. Live-action is secondary to me. — Genndy Tartakovsky

Safi was sick of dancing. Literally, she felt ill from all the spinning, and her breath - she'd not had a single moment to catch it since ... Merik. Prince Merik. The man who couldn't dress himself properly had turned out to be royalty. — Susan Dennard

Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do. — Thomas Jefferson

It was time to make amends. Time to bring justice to the wronged. Time to bring punishment to the wicked. — Susan Dennard

If you were that sort of girl, then ... " Merik lifted a hand to her jaw - tentative at first, then more confident when she didn't pull away. "Then I would start here and move down your throat." His fingers whispered over her neck, to her collarbone - and Merik was pleased by how punctuated her breaths grew. How much her lips trembled. — Susan Dennard

The holiest always have the farthest to fall. — Susan Dennard

The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you've made up your mind -jump in. — Charles R. Swindoll

Little suprises are nice, big suprises are better — Jim Sellers

Fool brother Filip led blind brother Daret
deep into the black cave.
He knew that inside it, the Queen Crab resided
but that didn't scare him away.

Said blind brother Daret to fool brother Filip,
does Queen Crab no longer reign?
I have heard she is vicious, and likes to eat fishes.
It's best we avoid her domain.

Answered fool Filip to his brother small,
have I not always kept you safe?
I know what I'm doing, for I'm older than you,
and I'll never lead you astray. — Susan Dennard

So Merik embraced the rage. He let it course through each of his breaths. Each of his thoughts. He could use the anger to help his hungry city. To protect his dying people.
For although the holiest might fall - and Merik had fallen far, indeed - they could also claw their way back up again. — Susan Dennard

Why do you hold a razor in one hand?
So men remember that I am sharp as any edge.
And why do you hold broken glass in the other?
So men remember that I am always watching. — Susan Dennard

You think you're so selfless, you think you're working to save everyone, but what if you're going about it all wrong? At least when I live as a boy, no one gets hurt. But you pretendin' to be a martyr? Pretending to be the Fury? That hurts everyone. — Susan Dennard

Stop seeing what you want to see, Merik Nihar, and start seeing what's really here! — Susan Dennard

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. — Richard Avedon

The music slowed. She pulled away first, slinking back the required four steps. Merik didn't look away from her face, and he only distantly noticed that, as she pulled away, his Windwitchery seemed to settle. Her skirts stopped swishing, her hair fluttered back to her shoulders. — Susan Dennard

I can always create new material. That's something I can control. — Godfrey

In other words, let's give our young women the right weapons to fight with as they charge naked into battle, instead of ordering them to get back in the house and put some goddamn clothes on. — Amanda Palmer

By renouncing samsara, we renounce our habitual grasping, unhappy minds. And by renouncing samsara, we embrace our potential for enlightenment. — Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

Two nights ago, I fucked up and hurt a woman I'd come to care about. I been waiting for this morning, hopin' you'd roll up to Ride and I wouldn't have to hunt you down. But if you were really pissed at me in a way I couldn't fix, this morning could have gone different. Thinkin' on that and all the other shit swirling in my life, the last two nights I haven't slept all that great. But I ate good, I just came hard, I'm in your bed, you like me here and you called me honey so I'm thinkin' tonight's my night. That is, if you'd shut up and let me sleep. — Kristen Ashley

The assassin in the night. The fire on the Jana. The woman in Judgment Square. Each event had led Merik here, to Noden's temple. To a fresco of the god's Left Hand.
And only a fool ignored Noden's gifts. — Susan Dennard

Safi ignored him--he was clearly an idiot — Susan Dennard

Merik turned away, pretending not to hear. Not to care. But the truth was, he did hear and he did care. — Susan Dennard

Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender. — Hendrik Hertzberg

You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is. — David Bowie

I will show her that loving her is my greatest truth, and the most beautiful thing I have ever known. - Gem — Stacey Jay

If I were to be back on Glee, I would like to spend some time with Lea Michele because I love her and we go way back. — Jonathan Groff