The Shadow Magic Series Quotes & Sayings

Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace. — Homer

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference. — David Mamet

Do you think it is fair that guy will make more money doing the same job as you? Does it piss you off and scare you when you find out about your friends getting raped? Do you ever feel like shit about your body? Do you ever feel like something is weong with you because you don't fit into this bizarre ideal of what girls are supposed to be like? Well, my friend, I hate to break it to you, but you're hardcore feminist. I swear. — Jessica Valenti

As one of the motorbikes came towards me, I let a big heavy right go, and knocked the rider's head clean off his shoulders! Fucking hell, the guy's head was still in his helmet and it was clattering all the way down the road. — Stephen Richards

no man,
is ever happy, no one. — Euripides

The library is my cathedral. — Barbara Bretton

The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter. — H.L. Mencken

The critics don't build great cities — Federico Pena

And there are
what
gods of chaos and order, then?"
"That is correct."
"Sounds like a series of rotten fantasy novels."
"Oh no. It is the basis of magic: the imposition of order on formless chaos, the release of joyous chaos into the gray monotony of order ... This is true magic. All else is shadow. — Neil Gaiman

But do not take this responsibility lightly, my boy. The Gauntlet casts an ominous shadow. — Casey Caracciolo

Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession. — Fareed Zakaria

There's a thing - I've noticed it often. When I first say something, it's as if people don't hear me, they can't believe I'm saying it. Then they start to actually pay attention, they stop noticing that a teenage girl is talking and start to believe that it's worth listening to what I'm saying. — Jo Walton

I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind. — James Madison

Death always wins. — Kelly Creagh

Without a battle there is no victory. — John Arnott