Leon Quotes

“It sure is ugly.”
“Ugly, never hurt a thing.”
I scoffed. “Oh, ugly has hurt some things. It’s just that pretty hurts more.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Sinner

“I glowered back up at him. "Did you need something?"
He didn't move. "Where are you going?"
"To plot your downfall," I snapped. I bent to retrieve my bag and then sneaked beneath his arm. It wasn't the most dignified exit, but it worked.”
― Bethany Frenette, Dark Star

“Aiden followed my gaze. “Leon, that one there counts half for me. So that’s six and a half.” Then he pivoted around, heading toward another daimon who had a Guard pinned on the floor.
Leon shrugged. “That’s okay. I have ten, loser.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Pure

“No human is ready for forever, and forever is all I have. But you gave me a part of your life, when mortal lives are so short.”
― Harley LaRoux, Her Soul to Take

“It isn't always easy between us. I admit that. But it's still right between us, always.”
― Caragh M. O'Brien, Prized

“The idea of spending another six hours with Leon and his farts was more than I could take.”
― John Scalzi, Old Man's War

“Leon had attached himself to me in Chicago like a fat, brat-and-beer-filled tick; I was amazed that someone whose blood was clearly half pork grease had made it to age seventy-five.”
― John Scalzi, Old Man's War

“I don’t know what I’d do without you, Leon.”

And there it was. That unlocking inside him. That thing only she could do to him. That was why he had come. Why he would always come.

Marry me, he thought.”
― Caragh M. O'Brien, Ruled

“Are we napping?” she asked.

“For a little,” he said.

He wasn’t napping. He concentrated every cell of his body on memorizing the weight of her against him, and the smell of her hair in the sun. His arms measured the slender curve of her torso. His fingers separated out a single strand of her hair. Her breathing slowed, easing, while his watchful heart chugged on, stupid and hungry, and the red bracelet stayed in his pocket.”
― Caragh M. O'Brien, Ruled

“Please put your shirt on,” she said.

He pulled it over his head, checking the buttons. “Better?”

She looked exhausted, and happy, and too bighearted to believe. So why did he still feel anguished? He grabbed her around the waist and pulled her onto his lap.

“Hey!” She laughed, hugging an arm around him.

He snuggled his nose in her hair and kissed her neck. Mine, he thought.

“They’ll see,” she muttered.

They’d better. “Let them. It’s legal.”

She laughed again and quickly kissed him. Finally.”
― Caragh M. O'Brien, Ruled

“I had two beady brown eyes that, no matter how hard I tried to look mysterious and cool, always seemed to say "It wasn't just me who farted.”
― Brian Katcher, Playing with Matches

“Why did you come?” Gaia asked, passing over his shirt.

“I wanted to see you,” he said.

“That’s all? No problem with the crims or anything?”

It seemed like so long ago that he’d left the crims to come into the village to find her. He fingered his shirt, which was all but dry. “No. Just you.”

“You’re awfully untalkative for a guy who came all this way to see me,” she said. He glanced up again, seeing the concern in her eyes when she smiled at him. His loneliness began to thaw.

“You were amazing in there, you know,” he said.

She shook her head, turning his hat in her hands. “I hope I didn’t boss you around too much. I can get a little single-minded.”

“Hardly at all. ‘Take yer boots off and git yerself in here,’” he drawled.”
― Caragh M. O'Brien, Ruled

“Every time Leon had to tell her everything that he had done since their last meeting. She asked him for some verses - some verses for herself, a "love poem" in honour of her. But he never succeeded in getting a rhyme for the second verse; and at last ended by copying for her a sonnet in a "Keepsake". This was less from vanity than from the one desire of pleasing her. He did not question her ideas; he accepted all her tastes; he was rather becoming her mistress than she his. She had tender words and kisses that thrilled his soul. Where could she have learned this corruption almost incorporeal in the strength of its profundity and dissimulation?”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“I went into physics to hang around with the bright kids. I wasn’t doing anything else and I didn’t want to look dumb, so I thought I’d pretend to be a physicist, just like the others. It was five or ten years after my Ph.D. before I realized I was pretty good.”
― Leon Max Lederman

“No human is ready for forever, and forever is all I have. But you gave me a part of your life, when mortal lived are so short.”
― Harley LaRoux, Her Soul to Take

“¡Mi destino me llama a voces y vuelve la fibra más tierna de mi cuerpo tan robusta, como los nervios del león de Nemea!...”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Leon actually laughed. "They have slushies up front."
"Jesus Christ," Benjamin muttered. "Nordstrom's. Macy's. We could go to Paris for the spring season. I was expecting transatlantic flights."
I figured ignoring that was best for all concerned. "Is there an Old Navy around here? They've got shorts and stuff." I caught the look Benjamin gave me. "What?"
"Nothing. We just thought a svetocha would be more, well, difficult." Leon's mouth twitched. "I do seriously want a slushie."
I tried a tentative smile. I definitely liked him now. "I haven't had one in ages. Maybe the guys outside - the double blonds - would want one, too?"
For some reason Leon found that utterly fricking hysterical. H snorted and chuckled all the way through Housewares to the Health and Beauty section, and even Benjamin unbent enough to grin.”
― Lili St. Crow

“Un león no se inmuta ante la risa que proviene de una hiena.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“En el siglo XXI un banquero que sepa poner un pleito es más poderoso que el más feroz de los leones de la sabana”
― Yuval Noah Harari

“[el leonés] Saldaña contestó, según era de esperar, que ninguna autoridad reconocía en el monarca de Castilla”
― Gil y Carrasco Enrique, The Lord of Bembibre: The Spanish Templar