Sehgal Caste Quotes & Sayings

It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car. — James Walsh

Near the window, Finnikin stood with both hands against the wall, his head bent over her. As always, the intimacy between them made Froi ache.
"I promise you," Finnikin said. "I've already shouted at her and used a very, very reprimanding tone."
"I was quivering," the Queen said, stepping out from behind Finnikin. — Melina Marchetta

Those who would wage war, should first eliminate all domestic enemies before proceeding to attack the external foe. — Sun Tzu

I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour. — Nancy Springer

But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward. — John Corey Whaley

When you're feeling insecure, you typically don't notice the hundreds of people around you who accept you just the way you are. All you notice are the few who don't. Don't ever forget your worth. Spend time with those who value you. No matter how good you are to people, there will always be negative minds out there who criticize you. Smile, ignore them, and carry on. You might feel unwanted and unworthy to one person, but you are priceless to another. — John Geiger

He thought, that all men, trickled away, changing constantly, until they finally dissolved, while the artist-created images remained unchangeably the same. He thought that the fear of death was perhaps the root of all art, perhaps also of all things of the mind. We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something that lasts longer than we do. Perhaps the woman after whom the master shaped his beautiful Madonna is already wilted or dead, and soon he, too, will be dead; others will live in his house and eat at his table- but his work will still be standing hundreds of years from now, and longer. It will go on shimmering in the quiet cloister church, unchangingly beautiful, forever smiling with the same sad, flowering mouth. — Hermann Hesse

I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of that I'm sure. But whether our lives will be as rich as they are now is another question. — David Attenborough

It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers. — Don Henley

The entrance into the family of an outside professional with legal authority is always a crisis-ridden event, but it may be the best insurance that the incest will not continue. — Janis Tyler Johnson

This sounds very interesting to me, but mostly because this girl is very interesting to me. — Robin Sloan

You picked the right road, even though it is the most difficult. That is the essence of heroism. (p. 326) — Brandon Mull

Ace sat down and inflated his cheeks like the wind gods in Italian paintings. — James Purdy

In a dream, in a fairytale, nothing has to be explained, everything happens of its own accord. — Antonia Michaelis