David > David's Quotes

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered”
― Melanie Rawn, Dragon Prince

“Affection isn't so plentiful in this life that any of us can afford to reject it when it's offered, whatever its source.”
― Melanie Rawn, The Star Scroll

“Even a strong man can succumb to the wiles of a pretty girl with pointy shoes.”
― Joseph Delaney, Attack of the Fiend

“And an unaware witch means a witch who doesn't know she's a witch, and because she's a women that makes her double trouble. Never trust a women."
My mothers a women," I said, suddenly feeling a little angry, "and I trust her."
Mothers are usually women," said the Spook. "And mothers are usually quite trustworthy, as long as your their son. Otherwise look out!”
― Joseph Delaney, Revenge of the Witch

“Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows”
― Nick Bantock, Griffin & Sabine

“The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more than an accident.”
― Charlie Fletcher, Silvertongue

“There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important.”
― Charlie Fletcher, Silvertongue

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

“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, Flora Fyrdraaca

“Most courage comes from being too tired and hungry to be afraid anymore.”
― Ysabeau S. Wilce, Flora Segunda

“She demanded, "Give up your life of idolatry and become a doctor."
I declined. "I have my geraniums to look after.”
― Nick Bantock, The Forgetting Room: A Fiction

“(I'm trying to improve my typing. notice I now leave a space after a comma, I'm very proud of myself!)”
― Nick Bantock

“Goldie closed her eyes and tried not to think about how she had nearly died, waiting for someone to come along and save her. She shivered. 'I'll never do that again,' she thought. 'Next time I'll save myself.”
― Lian Tanner, Museum of Thieves

“But there are some things, child, that you should steal. That you must steal, if you have enough love and courage in your heart. You must snatch freedom from the hands of the tyrant. You must spirit away innocent lives before they are destroyed. You must hide secret and sacred places.”
― Lian Tanner, Museum of Thieves

“Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.”
― Lincoln Child, The Third Gate