Janene Beyer > Janene's Quotes

“Next thing I remember was waking up on swampy ground and it was beginning to spit rain. I had no clue where I was, but I was hurting like hell. It was hard to take a breath; probably a broken rib or two? I felt around. My gun and knife were gone, along with my shoes and jacket with my cell phone, driver’s license, and two-thousand in cash.”
― Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate

“She learned that keeping up and working hard paid dividends inside the Pietà, unavailable to women outside it.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

“Today I plan to smile a lot, only so people who know me will be freaked the fuck out.”
― R.D. Ronald

“At seventeen the young woman had worked out how to improve her future prospects; she would seduce the Prince.”
― Robert Reid, The Emperor

“If all that is wiped out in one go after a major cyber-attack, the whole world comes to a standstill.”
― Fons Burger, 2125 - The Hibernator: What if you wake up in 100 years?

“At the heart of his deepest traumas lay a singular, scorching reality: fire.”
― S.E. Stitcher, The Doomsday Butcher

“...I listened to you say that we are all - Jana'ata and Runa and H'uman - children of a God so high that our ranks and our differences are as nothing in his far sight." ...
" I thought then that this was merely a song sung by a foreigner to a foolish girl who believed nonsense. ...
I was willing to hear this song, because I had once yearned for a world in which lives would be governed not by lineage and lust and moribund law, but by love and loyalty. In this one valley, such lives are possible, she said, "If it is a mistake to hope for such a world, then it is a magnificent mistake.”
― Mary Doria Russell, Children of God

“The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect.”
― sara gruen, Water for Elephants

“Curiouser and curiouser!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“War was grueling and oppressive and frustrating and uncomfortable, but one had friends. If peace brought back loneliness, Godliman thought he would not be able to live with it.”
― Ken Follett, Eye of the Needle

“Ceea-ce-se-situeaza-în-sine-însusi devine, din clipa în care este considerat dinspre privitor, ceea-ce-se-în-fatiseaza, ceea ce se ofera în aspectul sau exterior.”
― Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics

“Holly winked. 'Do I look like a fly boy to you, Fowl?'

Artemis had to admit that she didn't. Captain Short was extremely pretty in a dangerous sort of way. Black-widow pretty. Artemis was expecting puberty to hit in approximately eight months, and he suspected that at that point he would look at Holly in a different light. It was probably just as well that she was eighty years old.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Arctic Incident