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“Fritz Kramer said, “I cannot see why my treatment of my Chinese workers as equals should cause any German, American or British person any concern.”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

“The old man’s eyes sparked. “Elan of Ember, you I know, take me to your King.” He paused. “Now!” The old man spoke like a crack of thunder and red lightning flashed from his open hand. The portal gate beside Elan flashed with fire and disappeared. Without thought, Elan’s sword flew to his hand as he made towards the traveller. But again the red fire flashed. The sword glowed and like the gate, it was consumed by the fire. Elan collapsed, clutching the burnt fragments of his sword in his injured hand. “Take him to the King,” he grunted in pain. The guards did so without delay.”
― Robert Reid, White Light Red Fire

“We do not sleep,” said Aya. “These bodies do not require it. All they need is food to provide them with energy. Sleep is not needed.”
― Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

“I can walk through lava.”
― Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand

“Her husband's visage captivated her from the first moment she saw him step out of the royal carriage a hundred years ago. How could it not? Flaminius was utterly gorgeous. But once she fell in love with him, she became happily enslaved.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

“You were destined to find the amulet. This is because the Divines see something in you, Chase of Dragonfell. Something they haven’t seen in anyone for quite some time.”
― Cade Mengler, The Companions

“And what the sharp old medic suggested to the Pentagon sent shivers down their spines and set the alarm bells ringing all the way to the White House”
― Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

“We do not like to think of the United States as a police state, a nation like East Germany that people had to escape from, but the slaveholding states were just that.”
― James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

“picnic table.”
― Jon Scieszka, Frank Einstein and the Space-Time Zipper (Frank Einstein series #6): Book Six

“Ich denke, komme zu einem Ergebnis, halte das Ergebnis in einer Entscheidung fest und erfahre, dass das Handeln eine Sache für sich ist und der Entscheidung folgen kann, aber nicht folgen muss. Oft genug habe ich im Lauf meines Lebens getan, wofür ich micht nicht entschieden hatte, und nicht getan, wofür ich mich entschieden hatte. Es, was immer es sein mag, handelt. [...] Ich meine nicht, dass Denken und entscheiden keinen Einfluss auf das Handeln hätten. Aber das Handlen vollzieht nicht einfach, was davor gedacht und entschieden wurde. Es hat seine eigene Quelle und ist auf ebenso eigenständige Weise mein Handeln, wie mein Denken mein Denken ist und mein Entscheiden mein Entscheiden.”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

“This fable shows that ornaments of the spirit are preferable to a beautiful body.”
― Aesop, The Complete Fables

“It would have been better to come back at the same hour,” said the fox. “If, for example, you came at four o’clock in the afternoon, then at three o’clock I shall begin to be happy. I shall feel happier and happier as the hour advances. At four o’clock, I shall already be worrying and jumping about. I shall show you how happy I am! But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you . . . One must observe the proper rites . . .”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“-Quisiera que siempre fuera así.
+Siempre es sólo un momento.”
― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story