Quotes about herring
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“Jack, there are only two of us here. One of us is going to push him out, one of us is going to catch him. Which job do you want?”
(Melinda talking to her husband)”

Robyn Carr American writer

“In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

Love, Lovers, Passion

“Sebastian never does anything just for fun.” Jace took Clary’s hand and pulled her toward him. “But I do.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“We want you gone. Your presence is obviously upsetting for her."

"Oh, aye, the poor, wee lass -- who tossed me like a skipping stone.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night

“Nike could start you two fighting easily.” Percy gave her a sideways smile. “Yeah, we can’t have another incident like in Kansas. I might kill my bro Jason.” “Or I might kill my bro Percy,” Jason said amiably. “Which proves my point,” Annabeth said.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Smile, Fight

“It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Source: On Love

Time, Indifference, Forgetting

“Ouch,” Jace said in her ear, his tone indignant. “You elbowed me.”
“Well, you landed on me.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.”

William James book The Varieties of Religious Experience

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

Smile, Nature

“What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.”

Robin Hobb book Fool's Fate

Source: Fool's Fate

Life

“This mountain of a man was learning that his considerable might- which he'd clearly relied on for- was futile with her.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dark Needs at Night's Edge

Mountain, Learning

“He gave you to me," she said, so low I could hardly hear her. "Now I have to give you back to him, Mama.”

Diana Gabaldon book Voyager

Source: Voyager

“Oh, can I really believe the poet's tales, that when one first sees the object of one's love, one imagines one has seen her long ago, that all love like all knowledge is remembrance, that love too has its prophecies in the individual.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

On Regine Olsen (2 February 1839)
1830s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1830s
Context: Oh, can I really believe the poet's tales, that when one first sees the object of one's love, one imagines one has seen her long ago, that all love like all knowledge is remembrance, that love too has its prophecies in the individual. … it seems to me that I should have to possess the beauty of all girls in order to draw out a beauty equal to yours; that I should have to circumnavigate the world in order to find the place I lack and which the deepest mystery of my whole being points towards, and at the next moment you are so near to me, filling my spirit so powerfully that I am transfigured for myself, and feel that it's good to be here.

Quotes about herring page 16

Quotes about herring
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