Cruz Dinkins > Cruz's Quotes

“Bring me Mother Julian’s Scroll within two weeks, or I’ll get that guttersnipe Leni prosecuted for attempted murder. She won’t survive long in prison.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession.
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― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

“I’m just keeping the faith. I continue to eat well, take turmeric, cayenne pepper, milk and honey, and exercise my eye muscles frequently.”
― Traci Medford-Rosow, Unblinded: One Man's Courageous Journey Through Darkness to Sight

“[Woman] is simply what man decrees; thus she is called "the sex," by which is meant that she appears essentially to the male as a sexual being. For him she is sex -- absolute sex, no less. She is defined and differentiated with reference to man and not he with reference to her; she is incidental, the inessential as opposed to the essential. He is the Subject, he is the Absolute -- she is the Other.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“...the Evil Spirit delights more to dwell in an artful body, than in one that has no cunning to work upon.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer

“Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

“We'll have to work on your bunny phobia later.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“he had offered some of his own background. A youth in the South. An education in the North. Bred for life in the East. Trying not to die in the West.”
― Mary Doria Russell, Doc

“I'd lost count of the disappointments.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“When did you get so peppy?” she shouted.
“Ever since I assumed I was dead, then I suddenly wasn't.”
“Then remind me to try to kill you once in a while,” she snapped. “If I succeed, it will make me feel better, and if I fail, it will make you feel better. Everyone wins!”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Ring around the rosie.
A pocket full of posie.
Ashes ashes, we all fall down.
Some people say that this poem is about the Black Death, the fourteenth-century plague that killed 100-million people...
Sadly, though, most experts think this is nonsense...
How can I be so sure about this rhyme when all the experts disagree?
Because I ate the kid who made it up.”
― Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days

“none of this talk. A week or so later, thinking about Mark’s words, Randy had decided to go into”
― Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon