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"True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years."
"My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!"
"Edilio is in hiding, Astrid snapped. "Edilio has to worry about being kicked out of the country. Our Edilio."He's got a volunteer lawyer-But Astrid wasn't done. "They should be putting up statues to Edilio. They should be naming schools after that boy-no, no, I'm not going to call him a boy. If he's not a man, then I'll never meet one.Lana nodded approvingly, obviously enjoying and sharing in Astrid's outrage."
"But it was not only a feeling of guilt which drove him into danger. He detested the pettiness that made life semilife and men semimen. He wished to put his life on one of a pair of scales and death on the other. He wished each of his acts, indeed each day, each hour, each second of his life to be measured against the supreme criterion, which is death. That was why he wanted to march at the head of the column, to walk on a tightrope over an abyss, to have a halo of bullets around his head and thus to grow in everyone's eyes and become unlimited as death is unlimited. . ."
"If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground."
"He put his wrists out in front, and as he spoke the words engraved on them, he turned his arms around slowly. 'Dum spiramus tuebimur, which in English reads: while we breath, we shall defend,' he told her."
"Thais believed that in defeat the downtrodden, courageous soul would rise with the fiercest determination for victory. That is when the true spirit of warriors shined through and soared. A new day would dawn and with it a renewed hope would rise above the blood and the ash, strengthening even the weakest and igniting a birth of revolution."
"Emeth came walking forward into the open strip of grass between the bonfire and the Stable. His eyes were shining, his face was solemn, his hand was on his sword-hilt, and he carried his head high. Jill felt like crying when she looked at his face. And Jewel whispered in the King's ear, "By the Lion's Mane, I almost love this young warrior, Calormene though he be. He is worthy of a better god than Tash."
Explore more quotes by Lois Greiman
"Maybe knowledge is power, but it ain't nearly as as satisfying as punching some smart ass in the chops."
"Just when you think you have life by the tail, it's likely to whip around and take a hunk outta your balls."
"Opportunity may only knock once, but temptation'll knock down the damn door and drag you out by the hair."
"Some people are street-smart, some people are book-smart, but most people are just dumber than dirt."
"You guys gotta get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father."
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