Prentices Symbols Quotes & Sayings

I knew there was evil in the world. Death and taxes were all necessary evils.
So was shopping.
"I hate shopping," I muttered.
"Of course you do," Phaelan said. "You're a Benares, [the daughter of a long line of professional thieves]. We're not used to paying for anything." Phaelan was my cousin; he called himself a seafaring businessman. Law enforcement in every major city called him "that damned pirate," or less flattering epithets, none of them repeatable here.
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"Have you considered something in scarlet leather?" Phaelan mused from beside me.
"Have you considered just painting a bull's eye on my back?" I retorted.
My cousin wasn't with me because he liked shopping. He was by my side because being within five feet of me was a guarantee of getting into trouble of the worst kind. Phaelan hadn't plundered or pillaged anything in weeks. He was bored. So this morning, he was a cocky, swaggering invitation for Trouble to bring it on and do her worst. — Lisa Shearin

The good company counts in your life, make a right choice because bad company will eat you alive. — Euginia Herlihy

Throughout the history of Christianity, there had been a core of belief that man was not doomed to be everlastingly corrupt. — Robert Payne

the most natural thing in the world. And when she sat down across from him to eat, too, the space between them was stuffed with the easy quiet of people who are sure of each other and will be for years. Suddenly, he looked up, his mouth stretching into a lazy grin. "What?" "Nothing." "Nothing, with a blush?" Jack laughed. "You look like I'm the next course." Addie raised one brow. "Not the worst idea you've ever had." "We have to get to the diner. There are hungry people out there." But as he spoke, Jack tugged Addie into his arms. "Then again, there are hungry people in here." He began to nibble at her neck and kiss the freckle — Jodi Picoult

corrected in text: Page 18: undertand replaced with understand — Andrew Murray

When Life knocks at the door no one can wait,
When Death makes his arrest we have to go. — John Masefield

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy. — Spike Milligan

But I am not those people. I am just the biologist; I don't require any of this to have a deeper meaning. — Jeff VanderMeer

The opposite of a problem would likely be the correct solution. — Joey Lawsin

Mathematicians are born, not made. — Henri Poincare

Even death has a heart. — Markus Zusak