Sebastien Quotes & Sayings

His father was an attorney in Paris. He met Sebastien's mother on a train to Amsterdam. There were no other seats. They were forced together and found they preferred it. — Simon Van Booy

No, big is not important! — Sebastien Foucan

That's what being free means - not the right to do whatever you want, but the right to take a stand and say what you'll die for. — Sebastien De Castell

Gods, man, don't you start now,' I said softly. 'We're going to get a terrible reputation if we just keep travelling across the countryside crying all the time. — Sebastien De Castell

Why is life so much easier to live when people are trying to take it from you than when you're forced to actually live it? — Sebastien De Castell

Tennis is a world out of touch with reality — Sebastien Grosjean

Every society has atrocities in its past, Kellen. Do you think the Daroman empire was built on nothing but courage and military brilliance?
pg 266 — Sebastien De Castell

History is written by the victors,' she said, 'but the truth has a way of revealing itself. — Sebastien De Castell

I find overtime exciting. You don't have time to think about anything. — Jean-Sebastien Giguere

When you're fighting a crowd, it's good to shout potentially threatening things like "Crossbows!" or "Fire!" or "Giant Flying Cat!" every once in a while. — Sebastien De Castell

Some guys are more worried about their Vegas trip at the end of the season than playing the games, than playing every minute of the games. Quite frankly, I don't care about your Vegas trip right now. — Jean-Sebastien Giguere

The way of the parkour is to continue, not to stay here. — Sebastien Foucan

Parkour was never invented by anyone, it's always been here. — Sebastien Foucan

Everyone shush now,' I said, taking a step towards the guards. 'I'm about to be impressive. — Sebastien De Castell

There's Moses (...) Better company that some humans I've known [Sebastien] — Stephen Lloyd Jones

Everything was invented when somebody was alone. — Sebastien Foucan

His full name is Matthew Gabriel Philippe Bertrand Sebastien de Clermont. He was also a very good Sebastien, and a passable Gabriel. He hates Bertrand and will not answer to Philippe. — Deborah Harkness

All is true and all is false in love; love is the only thing about which it is impossible to say anything absurd."
Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort — Lee DeBourg

I don't consider myself as very talented. If I don't work, I'll be very bad. — Jean-Sebastien Giguere

Nothing on this planet is permanent, and this is why I believe there can be no such thing as possession. — Sebastien Foucan

Words matter. Without words you can't have stories and without stories we would never have heard of the Greatcoats. — Sebastien De Castell

By the time we have our fifth and sixth you'll be a pro." Kane teased. He nuzzled Sebastien head. " Do you hear that, son ? You're our experiment, so you'll have all sorts of excuses to do very naughty things. — Christine Feehan

If Kest ever becomes a Saint, the transcendent expression of an ideal, he's going to be Saint Kest-who-never-fucking-learns. — Sebastien De Castell

When I do something, I like it when it's perfect. I'm kind of hard on myself that way. — Jean-Sebastien Giguere

I don't know how well I can fight, or run, or judge, but when the blade comes, I swear on whatever they want me to swear on, I'll stop it, with my body if nothing else. — Sebastien De Castell

I walked over and hugged him, knowing it would only make things worse for him. I don't get that many chances to torture Brasti. — Sebastien De Castell

Another trap. Never let yourself be tricked into comparing one woman with all others; it rarely turns out well. — Sebastien De Castell

It's stories that inspire people to change. It's stories that make them believe things can be better. — Sebastien De Castell

You can find the way by yourself naturally, you just need a guide to tell you to be careful, to not do this to impress people, just follow your instincts. — Sebastien Foucan

The dishes of the present day are very light, and they have a particular delicacy and perfume. The secret has been discovered of enabling us to eat more and to eat better, as also to digest more rapidly ... The new cookery is conductive to health, to good temper, and to long life ... Who could enumerate all the dishes of the new cuisine? It is an absolutely new idiom. I have tasted viands prepared in so many ways and fashioned with such art that I could not imagine what they were. — Louis-Sebastien Mercier

You have to try to push yourself to the limit. You can't worry about making a mistake. If you worry about it, you'll lose. — Jean-Sebastien Giguere

He'd told me the world could be the most lovely place you could imagine, so long as your imagination was fueled by love. — Sebastien De Castell

We all got ugliness inside us, Kellen. Yours is worse? Then fight harder. Figure it out. But don't you ever pretend you don't have a choice. — Sebastien De Castell

I wondered, not for the first time, that the world could bear the weight of so many foul people. "Besides, — Sebastien De Castell

She turned back to the rest of us. "They've taken it all," she said. "They've taken every last good thing in the world."
Then she swung the door wide. "Now go and show them your answer. — Sebastien De Castell

Then go find another woman," she said flatly.
"I want you. Only you. The devil knows why," Sebastien glared at her. — Lisa Kleypas

I'm a woman, kid. You probably haven't met one before, coming as you do from this backward place, but it's like a man only smarter and with bigger balls. — Sebastien De Castell

Some deaths are worse than others. The one you go to is the worst of all. — Sebastien De Castell

Listen closely, Sebastien Newcombe, ... I will only say this once. I understand the despair coursing through you. I understand the rage that is eating away at your insides like acid. If you want to lash out at me, you are welcome to do so ... But if you ever give me reason to believe you have been anything less than kind to the woman who resides here, I will strike your head from your body and you will go down in history as the only immortal I have ever killed. Nod your head that you understand me. — Dianne Duvall

When you see the world outside your home town, outside the walls of what you were brought up to see, then you discover that you almost never know if you're dong the right thing. One action, brave and true, leads to war and destruction. Another, craven and greedy, leads to peace and prosperity.
pg 197 — Sebastien De Castell

I rolled my eyes at Kest. We'd heard this lecture many times before, but Trin hadn't, so she stepped right into it.
"Is it really so hard?" She asked
"My dear, not one man in a hundred can be a proper archer. And not one in ten thousand can become a master."
"And you are one? A master archer, i mean?"
Brasti smiled and contemplated the nails of his right hand. "One might fairly say so, i believe."
"One says so frequently," I observed. — Sebastien De Castell

Despite my repeated attempts, my hands refused to reach out and wrap themselves around Brasti's throat. The — Sebastien De Castell

I suppose "cartographer" is as good a description as any, but the Argosi do not draw maps of places, but rather of people... cultures.' She tapped the deck in my hand. 'You understand the meaning of the suits? ... look more closely at the individual cards and you'll see that the particular design on each card reflects part of the fundamental power structure of that society.'
pg 79 — Sebastien De Castell

First thing you learn wandering the long roads, kid. Everyone thinks they're the hero of their own story.
Pg328 — Sebastien De Castell

Practice with the obstacle, always with the obstacle, and seek combinations. — Sebastien Foucan

What if I'd never found her? What if Patriana had managed to kill all your so-called 'Charoites'? And who in all the hells calls their bastards 'Charoites' anyway? Was it really that important to make sure I had no damned idea what you'd sent me to do? What about the other Greatcoats? Are they all wandering the country trying to make sense of the last command you gave each of them? — Sebastien De Castell

Sometimes when you live out here alone, you forget how to treat with people. [Sebastien] — Stephen Lloyd Jones

But no man is all one thing; none of us are pure in our beliefs or our devotions. We are all bound by the frailties of our humanity, some of which feed our hatred, some of which, very occasionally, make us want to be something better. — Sebastien De Castell

I must have encountered the Duke somewhere on the road because I was carrying a sack with me and his head was in it. — Sebastien De Castell

He could hear his knees crack, and it made him feel old. You had to live so terribly long to actually be old, but Sebastien was starting to wonder if people began to feel that way quite a bit earlier, and spent their lives waiting for their bodies to match their souls. — Jennifer DuBois

I'm not a reflex goalie. I try to make as many stops as possible with with my stomach. — Jean-Sebastien Giguere

I don't like caricature. I don't like extreme, I don't like that. — Sebastien Foucan

Your ancient enemy is basically just a really, really big squirrel — Sebastien De Castell

Without philosophy, action has no meaning. — Sebastien Foucan

Never trust a man who brings a hundred soldiers to a wedding — Sebastien De Castell

I want to reach that peak. I don't know when I'm going to reach it. I don't know how good it's going to be. But if I feel like I've done it all-that I've reached what I can reach at the end, there's no way I can't be satisfied. — Jean-Sebastien Giguere

Society is composed of two great classes
those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. — Sebastien Chamfort

The archer is the true weapon; the bow is just a long piece of wood. — Sebastien De Castell

Thinking of her aggravation with him during the meeting, he smiled. "Which reminds me ... You kicked me."
She shrugged, lips tilting up just a bit. "You were being an ass. Didn't anyone ever tell you you can catch more flies with honey?"
"Sure. But who wants to catch flies?"
She laughed. "You're impossible."
"So everyone keeps telling me, but in far less pleasant terms. — Dianne Duvall

Nobody ever invents anything You're inspired and sometimes you can improve. — Sebastien Foucan

... he had known darkness and despair, and emerged determined to light candles for everyone else. — Sebastien De Castell

Nehra frowned. "Do you always run headlong into certain death?" "Sometimes he walks," Dariana said. "Occasionally he shuffles. Once I'm pretty sure I saw him amble into certain death." Nehra rolled her eyes. "You risk your lives on foolish odds. — Sebastien De Castell

He might be famous (local newspaper or television) for finding it, true - but if fame takes away the thing it celebrates, then Sebastien would prefer the inspired silence. We're all famous in our own hearts anyway. — Simon Van Booy

I'm pretty strong," he says. "I could cart you around on my back all day long. Hey, I could even teach you to swim."
'Tisn't true," she replies haughtily. "How could you do that?"
I know how--with floats, to keep your feet up."
She shakes her head. He puffs out his cheeks and whistles soundlessly. "I go fishing with my father on Sundays. I can bring you back a hake big as this!" He spreads his arms to show a fish about the size of a whale. "You like hake?"
She shakes her head.
Bass?"
Same response.
Crab claws? We got a lot of them, in the nets."
She turns her chair around and pushes the wheels along--now she's the one who goes away.
Snobby Parisienne!" he yells after her. "And to think I almost fell for you! I smell too fishy is that it? — Sebastien Japrisot

However much this annoyed me, it is accepted practice for a duellist's supporters to cheer them on- in fact, i was entitled to similar outbursts from my own admirers.
'This Undriel fellow really is remarkably skilled,'Kest remarked.
Undriel. That was the bastard's name.
Brasti came to my defence, after a fashion. 'It's not Falcio's fault. He's getting old. And slow. Also, i think he might be getting fat. Just look at him- barely four months since he beat Shuran and already he's half the man he once was.'
Always nice to have friends nearby in troubled times, i thought, batting at Undriel's blade with a clumsy parry that was testament to my increasing exhaustion. — Sebastien De Castell

If not us, then who? Who's going to stand when everyone else kneels? Who's going to argue for the law even when there's no justice to be had? Who's going to try even when the trying is too damn hard? — Sebastien De Castell

Happiness is a series of grains of sand spread out in a desert of violence and anguish. — Sebastien De Castell