Egbert > Egbert's Quotes

“I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“Money can make people inhuman, it is best to stay away from people who care too much about money. They are people with shoddy flimsy brains.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“What I mean is, I think they stay right where they've always been...in our hearts and in our thoughts. I'd guess, Reilly, that I'd say we're all haunted. Haunted by those we've loved but are no longer with us. That's where the dead go.
-Harmless O'Chanter”
― Paul Durham, The Luck Uglies

“Maybe the ghosts who walk this cemetery are just lonely. They don't have any hearts to go home to.”
― Paul Durham, The Luck Uglies

“You must cherish these items, but be warned. Theses charms are not shortcuts, their powers shall only come to you over time. With great practice, skill, and dedication It may take years before they begin to reveal the powers I describe. No charm will make a lazy child great; But it may make a child who strives for greatness extraordinary.”
― Paul Durham, The Luck Uglies

“Kell shook his head. "No," he said. "It is Vitari. In a way, I suppose it is pure. But it is pure potential, pure, power, pure magic."
"And no humanity," said Lila. "No harmony."
Kell nodded. "Purity without balance is its own corruption.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“sarcasm isn’t the lowest form of wit. It’s not even wit at all.”
― John Flanagan, The Burning Bridge

“White as snow, red as blood, black as ebony.... "White, Red, and Black," He said, wiping the blade clean on his sleeve. "Snow white colors. That's what my brother use to call them. He liked that story a lot. But who would have thought they had such power.”
― Cornelia Funke

“Neither Goyl nor men lived long enough to understand that yesterday was born of tomorrow, just as tomorrow was born of yesterday.”
― Cornelia Funke

“A wedding, a daughter in payment, and a white dress to hide all the bloody battlefields.”
― Cornelia Funke, Reckless

“Girl. Woman. So much more vulnerable. Strong and yet weak. A heart that knew no armor.”
― Cornelia Funke, Reckless

“Power. Like wine when you have it. Like poison when you lose it.”
― Cornelia Funke, Reckless

“I know why you're here ... This world doesn't frighten you half as much as the other one. You have nothing and nobody to lose here. Except Fox, and she clearly worries more about you than you do about her. You've left all that could frighten you in the other world. But then Will came here and brought it all with him.”
― Cornelia Funke, Reckless

“A good leader is someone who knows what he's bad at, and hires someone who's good at it to take care of it for him.”
― John Flanagan, The Battle for Skandia

“Mortals don't understand life is not a book you close only after you read the last page. There is no last page in the Book of Life, for the last one is always the first page of another story.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

“Secrets. They add to the darkness of the world but they also make you want to find out more...”
― Cornelia Funke, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

“Her mother said fairy tales didn't have anything to do with the world, but Ofelia knew better. They had taught her everything about it.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

“Sometimes even the healers are turned into butchers by the darkness of this world.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

“The old curator of ceramics lay near the door, looking indignant, as if death was a silly modern fad that he rather disapproved of.”
― Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines

“When you find yourself swimming upstream for the sake of God's Word, you're definitely on course. The problem is most people would rather be comfortable than obedient, because true kindness must be an action, not a reaction.”
― Austin McBeth, The Sweet Sixteen: A Coach's Guide to Leadership

“The greatest coaches aren't the ones whose teams never lose. They're the ones who grow the most from every setback.”
― Austin McBeth, The Sweet Sixteen: A Coach's Guide to Leadership

“When a person's heart gets filled up with anything in life, it is gonig to spill out of their mouth. That's how you can tell what is in a person's heart-just listen to what they talk about regularly. The mouth is the ventilation system for the heart.”
― Austin McBeth, The Sweet Sixteen: A Coach's Guide to Leadership

“The will of God or the lunacy of man - it seemed to him that you could take your choice, if you wanted a good enough reason for most things. Or, alternatively, the will of man and the lunacy of God.”
― James Hilton, Lost Horizon

“Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos. ”
― Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan

“Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue...”
― James Hilton, Lost Horizon

“That is the fundamental nature of gifts: they move, and their value increases with their passage.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

“..Restoring a habitat, no matter how good intentioned, produces casualties. We set ourselves us as arborators of what is good, when often our standards of goodness are driven by narrow interests. By what we want.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

“The guidelines for the honorable harvest are not written down, or even consistently spoken of as a whole. They're reinforced by small acts of daily life. But if you were to list them it might look something like this. Know the ways of the ones who take care of you, so that you may take care of them. Introduce yourself, be accountable as the one who comes asking for life. Ask permission before taking, abide by the answer. Never take the first. Never take the last. Take only what you need. Take only that which is given. Never take more than half. Leave some for others. Harvest in a way that minimizes harm. Use it respectfully, never waste what you have taken. Share. Give thanks for what you have been given, give a gift for what you have taken, sustain the ones who sustain you and the earth will last forever.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

“Ceremonies transcend the boundaries of the individual and resonate beyond the human realm. These acts of reverence are powerfully pragmatic. These are ceremonies that magnify life.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

“People pay accountants and psychologists to give them power over the here and now, and they pay life coaches, fitness trainers, doctors, and tarot readers so they can control more of the future.”
― Brittney Morris, The Cost of Knowing