Dave > Dave's Quotes

“We are all of us, gods and mortals, made up of many pieces, some of them broken, some of them scarred, but none of them the total sum of who we are.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“And they well understand the need for some to die in order that a great many more can live. It is the very nature of a soldier's life.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“The world,” Aelin said, “will be saved and remade by the dreamers, Rolfe.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“War is sanctioned murder, no matter what side you're on.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“Impossible things do happen. But only if we make them.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“I have learned that the quality of life is not determined by its longevity.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“It is not such a hard thing, is it - to die for your friends.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“I think love should make you happy. It should make you into the best possible version of yourself.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“What do we do? asked the next-oldest puppy, one who rarely spoke. What can we do?

Watch. Wait. Protect the princesses. Keep them cheerful and unafraid. They will need whole hearts and the memory of happiness, at least, to have any chance of doing what must be done.”
― Garth Nix, Frogkisser!

“Mmmmmm, said Ardent [the Royal Dog]. He liked cooked food. Also raw food and semicooked food, and things that might be food and so were worth chewing on for a while to make sure they weren't food.”
― Garth Nix, Frogkisser!

“Matt had to swallow hard to keep tears from forming. Fidelito had called him brother!”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“I don't want to be that kind of sorcerer, said Anya swiftly. Besides, you wouldn't...you wouldn't love me then, would you?

We will always love you, said Tanitha. But you would not know that if you become like the Duke. He has grown too cold form his magic, and has forgotten what it means to love.”
― Garth Nix, Frogkisser!

“Eejits can feel pain, mi patron, otherwise I couldn't train them. I don't think they suffer in the same way we do. To suffer implies emotion, and eejits don't have that”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“The 'rob from the rich, give to the poor' is more of a general overview than a specific thing we have to do every time. It really means making sure those who have too much do some sharing with those who have too little, and it isn't always just about valuables or money or even basic things like food. It is also about sharing power and opportunities.”
― Garth Nix, Frogkisser!

“Do your zombies eat brains? Are they horrible and scary?

They're only sad.”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“Music is a great balm. Another thing evil sorcerers give up. They cannot abide music, for it can conjure all human emotions, most particularly joy and happiness.”
― Garth Nix, Frogkisser!

“Once, he'd been satisfied by the music alone. Now he had learned about friendship...”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“Bubonic plague killed a third of the people in Europe, but it destroyed the old governments and allowed their citizens to gain freedom. The result was a burst of creativity and prosperity never seen before.”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“They ruined their environment, and their civilization collapsed. You'd think their descendants would have learned not to kill the earth that feeds them, but humans are endlessly stupid and greedy.”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“Will Morven be a good queen?

Um, said Anya, flustered. She's the oldest...

Bert's eyes opened wider, questioningly. And that makes her fit to rule? Tell me, in your reading, do you study history?”
― Garth Nix, Frogkisser!

“Bert and Dehlia had planted the seed of thought in her mind, and it was growing away busily putting out new shoots of thought, all of which were quite bothersome, because they were about things like responsibility and fairness, and thinking about others, and why being a princess perhaps should be about more than just having a nice library and three meals a day, particularly when other people didn't have these things...”
― Garth Nix, Frogkisser!

“He's a scientist, and they know everything. Religion is crap.”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“You get used to being evil.”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“I didn't know why he became a tree. I don't really know anything about why druids become trees-

Peace and quiet, said Elisandria matter-of-factly. Abdication of responsibility. A good long sleep. All of that.”
― Garth Nix, Frogkisser!

“I think that people have an instinct for a family. You look until you find a mother, a father, a sister, a brother. They don't have to be blood relatives. They just have to love you. And when you find them, you don't have to look anymore.”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“She very rarely cried, but being brave all the time took an enormous amount of effort. Sometimes she just got tired of keeping everything together.”
― Garth Nix, Frogkisser!

“How much wickedness could you do in the service of good before it turned into pure evil?”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium

“Knowledge is always useful, even if...if it is not immediately apparent how it will be useful.”
― Garth Nix, Frogkisser!

“BECAUSE THEY LOOK SO SURPRISED TO BE EATEN UP! guffawed the giant. PRINCESSES ALWAYS EXPECTS TO GET RESCUED.

Do they? asked Anya mildly. Better they should rescue themselves.”
― Garth Nix, Frogkisser!

“Don't leave it too long. It's harder to repair a friendship later.”
― Nancy Farmer, The Lord of Opium