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“Na widok wchodzącego Gustawa Piątego przestaliśmy oddychać. Za królem szła świta. Aż w oczach się ćmiło od stosownych kapeluszy z pióropuszami, od złotych szamerowań i szpad.
Król zbliżył się do kapitana, który również wyszedł kilka kroków na jego spotkanie. Wobec tego rozmowa króla z kapitanem, prowadzona w języku francuskim, pozostała dla nas nieznana. Obaj byli sobą zachwyceni i śmiali się rozmawiając.
Król przyglądał się nam okiem znawcy i zadawał pytania kapitanowi. Gdy patrzył na nas i słuchał wyjaśnień kapitana, rozjaśniał się coraz bardziej. Po nasyceniu swej ciekawości naszym widokiem król postanowił obejrzeć nas z bliska. Stanął kilka kroków przed idealnie wyrównanym frontem i powiedział coś po królewsku, witając nas królewskim gestem ręki.
Uświadomiliśmy sobie szybko, że coś odpowiedzieć musimy. Ale co? W jakim języku? Porozumieć się między sobą nie mogliśmy. Zakomenderować też nikt nie mógł. Na to wszystko było już za późno. Owiani wspomnieniami scen Sienkiewiczowskiego „Potopu” imaginowaliśmy sobie, że Carolus Gustavus Rex przyjmuje polskich rycerzy jak przyjaciel, bez obrazy dla majestatu, jako że każdy rycerz może być w Polsce wybrany królem.
Zaczęliśmy wszyscy nabierać powietrza w płuca, co było widomym sygnałem, że zaraz na królewskie powitanie odpowiemy jak na nadwornych rycerzy przystało.
Gdy już zaczerpnęliśmy wystarczającą ilość powietrza, jak na komendę, jak jeden mąż, wyskandowaliśmy:
- CZOŁEM, PANIE KRÓLU!!!
Zadrżał król Gustaw Piąty. Zadrżała sala i świta królewska. Byliśmy przekonani, że nikt jeszcze króla z takim zapałem nie przywitał.”
― Karol Olgierd Borchardt, Znaczy Kapitan

“Nothing but a symbol? People die for symbols. People have hope because of symbols. They're not just lines. They're histories, cultures, traditions, given shape.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves

“Wolves were everywhere. In politics, on thrones, in beds. They cut their teeth on history and grew fat on war.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves

“Fear grew in places unlit by knowledge”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves

“History is a myth shaped by the tongues of conquerors.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves

“I don't want to be their equal. I don't want them to look us in the eye. I want them to look away, to blink harshly, as if they'd stared at the sun itself. I don't want them standing across from us. I want them kneeling.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves

“Séverin crossed his arms. “Zofia, tell him he’s pretty.”
Zofia didn’t look up from her tea. “I am personally undecided, but if we’re assessing based on objectivity, then according to the principles of the golden ratio, also known as phi, which is approximately 1.618, your facial beauty is mathematically pleasing.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves

“As he walked out the door of his study, a phantom ache curled between his shoulder blades. As if they craved the weight of wings.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves

“Love does not always wear the face we wish,” she said. “I wish my love had been more beautiful. I wish … I wish we had more time.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Silvered Serpents

“The patriarch had grabbed the girls too dark to be visible in the world’s eyes; whose languages fell on deaf ears; whose very homes at the edge of society pushed them too far into the shadows for notice.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Silvered Serpents

“Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart. You cannot protect yourself from suffering. To live is to grieve. You are not protecting yourself by shutting yourself off from the world. You are limiting yourself.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“Zoya of the lost city. Zoya of the garden. Zoya bleeding in the snow. You are strong enough to survive the fall.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“Fear is a phoenix. Words Liliyana had spoken to her years ago and that Zoya had repeated to others many times. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“They did not look to each other for comfort. They kept each other marching.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“Just a moment," David said, planting a finger on the page to mark his place in his book. "What was your name ?"
"Yuri Vedenen, moi soverenyi."
"Yuri Veneden, if you upset my wife again, I will kill you where you stand."
The monk swallowed. "Yes, moi soverenyi."
"Oh, David," Genya said, taking his hand. "You've never theatened to murder anyone for me before."
"Haven't I?" He murmured distractedly, placed a kiss on her knuckles, and continued reading.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“After all this time, she still had not found an end to her grief. It was a dark well, an echoing place into which she’d once cast a stone, sure that it would strike bottom and she would stop hurting. Instead, it just kept falling. She forgot about the stone, forgot about the well, sometimes for days or even weeks at a time. Then she would think Liliyana’s name, or her eye would pause on the little boat painted on her bedroom wall, its two-starred flag frozen in the wind. She’d sit down to write a letter and realize she had no one to write to, and the quiet that surrounded her became the silence of the well, of the stone still falling.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“A lot can be learned from the big companies of today. Companies like Amazon have revolutionized logistics, companies like Tesla have revolutionized sustainable systems, companies like Microsoft and Google have revolutionized data mining and data distribution, companies like Maersk have revolutionized Supply Chains, companies like Gardein and Beyond Meat have revolutionized food. Every company can serve as a case study of some kind with various lessons that can be learned.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“If you wanna learn about logistics, go meditate in a forest.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
― Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means