Bryce Speyrer > Bryce's Quotes

“It does little good to regret a choice. So often people say, “If only I had known,” implying they would’ve acted differently in a given situation. It is true that desires of the moment can blind one’s sight of the future. Revenge is not as sweet as the adage claims. Yet who could pass a chance to taste it? And if the chance were allowed to slip by, would the fool regret his lack of action? ”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

“When you call a ghetto a cordon, does it become a village?”
― Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel

“She peeped through one of the small holes in the outer wall rising up from the walkway. The world on the outside was nothing but countryside now. Dirt roads, like chocolate ribbons, disappeared into woods or green fields in the distance.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“Over the years, The Cult of the Clan’s finest hunters had tried and failed to capture a changeling and Bonnyman was determined he would not make the same mistakes as his peers. Their stories littered the pages of the Cult’s history like garbage discarded in the street.”
― Frank Lambert, Xyz

“Satisfied, Sundae trotted to a bush near the lake, dug vigorously for some seconds and pulled out a bone deliciously covered in mud and bits of vegetation. She took her prize to a still-sunny patch of grass and began to gnaw at it. Two magpies, their greyish necks identifying them as juveniles, landed on a nearby branch. Sundae paused, eyes flicking up to stare at the birds, then returned to attend to the bone. One of the magpies swooped down and landed on the lawn a couple of metres away from the dog. Sunny’s top lip trembled up in the prelude of a snarl. The magpie approached the dog. Sundae’s body tensed, lip furling up further, eyes focused on the agitator. The magpie inched closer. When it was half a metre away, Sundae launched. The bird flew back to the branch next to its companion. Then both birds threw their heads back and let out a rollicking call; it sounded like laughter. Rumbling a growl, Sundae returned to her bone, casting baleful glares at the birds as she gnawed.
Saskia and Tania chuckled.
“For all of my life, I have watched the magpies and dogs of Woodgrove play this game,” Tania said. “And every time I see it, I have to laugh.”
― Miriam Verbeek, The Forest: A thrilling international crime novel

“You need to get your head out of the clouds and see the reality right in front of your face, Kara. My enemies have become yours which means you aren’t going anywhere.” Before she could reply, he crashed his mouth over hers, plunging his tongue into her mouth when she gasped, and he finally kissed her the way he’d been dreaming about.”
― Becky Wilde, Bratva Connection: Maxim

“Why did I let Reynard Wolfe convince me to embalm and inter Louis”
― Rebecca Rosenberg, Madame Pommery, Creator of Brut Champagne

“He clamped his eyes shut and waited for the pang of something he could no longer name to subside; it plucked at steel threads holding him together and reverberated through his system.”
― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath

“Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another.  I judge of your sight by my sight, of your ear by my ear, of your reason by my reason, of your resentment by my resentment, of your love by my love.  I neither have, nor can have, any other way of judging about them.”
― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

“People think that working hard for money and then buying things that make them look rich will make them rich. In most cases it doesn't. It only makes them more tired. They call it ‘Keeping up with the Joneses.' And if you notice, the Joneses are exhausted.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad's CASHFLOW QUADRANT

“For a group of people who claimed to be concerned for her safety, they did seem to have developed rather a habit of encouraging uprisings against monarchs.”
― Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

“В женщинах я видел святилище, пусть и для индивидуального пользования, само существование которого позволяло вынести все что угодно. Как я или любой другой мужчина мог выдержать тяготы повседневной жизни без такого вот святилища? Я приходил домой, ненавидя день, который пришлось положить на безразличную мне работу, волнуясь из-за денег, потеряв последнюю надежду на то, что я стану знаменитым писателем. Но душевная боль исчезала, потому что я ужинал с семьей, рассказывал на ночь сказки детям, а потом занимался любовью с верящей в меня женой. Происходило чудо. Не только для меня и Валери, но и для бесчисленных миллионов мужчин и их жен и детей. На протяжении тысяч лет. Что еще могло удержать человечество от самоуничтожения? Только любовь и, возможно, чуть-чуть ненависти.”
― Mario Puzo, Fools Die

“you are worthy and lovable, just as you are, on your own.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Life Lessons: Two Experts on Death and Dying Teach Us About the Mysteries of Life & Living

“Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“   In 1658, Francis Andrew Ransome stole the Alchemy Scroll from St. Julian’s college, my present employer. Ransome was a member of a transatlantic group called The Invisible College. They were alchemists, meaning they worked with matter and spirit together.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“I understand more that pain is evidence to our awakening to truth and also a measure of closeness to truth.”
― Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black

“It's amazin’ what people tell you when they’re relaxed and sittin’ in a barber chair.”
― A.G. Russo, Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss

“Even with all this power, it comes down to the same old things. Connections, money, influence.”
― Alan Bradley, The Sixth Borough

“Mead.
O sweet elixir,
Ye bless the lips and steal the wits.
 ”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

“We’re both as tall as most men here in 1801, so we can make it work.”
― Steven Decker, The Balance of Time

“My best seller was Golden Stream, written under my pen name of I.P. Daly.”
― Kyle Keyes, Quantum Roots

“you ought never to suffer your designs to be crossed in order to avoid war, since war is not so to be avoided, but is only deferred to your disadvantage.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“I was born in the age of "alas".”
― Pat Conroy, South of Broad

“I have never tried that before, so I think I should definitely be able to do that" - Pippi Longstocking”
― Astrid Lindgren

“Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.”
― Judith Guest

“flamingoes and mustard both bite. And the moral of that is--"Birds of a feather flock together.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland