“Consider and then act, don't react. A worthy opponent will calculate his move to entice a response from you. Make your own play.”
― The Elephant Tree
― The Elephant Tree
“Tell my daughter Elizabeth -- no! Tell all my daughters, everywhere, in all the ages yet to come. Tell them how I died, and why. And tell them to remember this: the future is unwritten. Know your rights.”
― The Other Boleyn Girl
― The Other Boleyn Girl
“But Dad said we had to try, because neither he or I could bear the thought of living the rest of our lives without her.”
― The Solitaire Mystery
― The Solitaire Mystery
“This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.”
― God Emperor of Dune
― God Emperor of Dune
“But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
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