Ysabeau Quotes & Sayings

Enough Truthseeker! Do not utter another word about religion! We have debated it to death! If you so much as mention it again while I am present, I will resume my heart-carving. Not for the honour of Avanti, but to shut you up!"

~ Vexis Zaelwarsh to Brael Truthseeker
Deathsworn Arc 5: The Temple of the Mad God
Martyn Stanley — Martyn Stanley

I don't want to look at myself - ever. All I see is that my face is a problem. It's asymmetrical. I get terrible bags under my eyes. — Whitney Cummings

For higher-level execs with greater public visibility, social networks need to become as good at filtering as they are at connecting. — Danah Boyd

And so we learn how simple it is to change the history of the universe," Sorvalh said. "All you need is for every other thing to have gone so horribly wrong — John Scalzi

When we're in love, we may resent it, but we certainly miss love once it's gone. — Naguib Mahfouz

People keep asking "Jacob or Edward?" when the really important question is "Diamond Dave or Sammy? — Ysabeau S. Wilce

Most courage comes from being too tired and hungry to be afraid anymore. — Ysabeau S. Wilce

Napster is a consumer revolt. Napster is about my right to have this music and to share if I've paid for it. You know, so we start to see our decisions, our opportunities, our every choice is a consumer choice. — Douglas Rushkoff

By the time he was finished with that task, finished with that family for once and all, Chase and the others would already have the Ardent in the hands of the Lowes' agent, who'd then bring her and her cargo to the prize courts for a ruling.

A crucial part of that process was the testimony of the ranking officer of the captured vessel. He couldn't stab his fork into Wren's eye - well, he supposed he could. The man only needed his mouth to serve as witness to the courts that the vessel had been fairly won. Did every nicety need to be observed? — Alexandra Bracken

I love working with kids and I want to just be able to do it from my heart and not as a job. — Clara Hughes

Oh, yes. I know all about vampires and their crazy ways. Apparently, Fernando didn't have the same reluctance as Matthew and Ysabeau did to tell vampire tales. — Deborah Harkness

Now get this straight, Watanabe," said Midori, pointing at me. "I'm warning you, I've got a whole month's worth of misery crammed inside me and getting ready to blow. So watch what you say to me. Any more of that kind of stuff and I'll flood this place with tears. Once I get started, I'm good for the whole night. Are you ready for that? I'm an absolute animal when I start crying, it doesn't matter where I am! I'm not joking. — Haruki Murakami

I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along. — Douglas Coupland

Ysabeau wanted me to know she approved of you. Like the gold from which it is made, you are steadfast. You hide many secrets within you, just as the bands of the ring hide the poesies from view. But it is the stone that best captures who you are: bright on the surface, fiery within, and impossible to break. — Deborah Harkness

Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty. — Baron De Montesquieu

After all, history is a type of fantasy. For all the primary source research, in the end, the past world the historian builds is as weird and remote from our own as Middle Earth or Narnia, yet oddly familiar. — Ysabeau S. Wilce

I was a little, tiny kid in the '80s, but I do remember seeing the styles of clothes, and I remember the cars from that era. — Scott Michael Foster

No one ever said it would be easy — Annie Dillard