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Quotes by Australian Authors
"This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps poets scribbling endlessly away. If one could pin it to paper all complete, the others would lay down their pens. But it cannot be done."
"Dante didn't work out, and then we found Ryan. He worked at a comic, record and toy store in Fremont."
"Memories carry thoughts through the passage of time."
"He hesitated, then lifted his head and sniffed. "Have you been drinking? The question was more curious than accusatory. "No, Bast said. The innkeeper raised an eyebrow. "I've been tasting, Bast said, emphasizing the word. "Tasting comes before drinking."
"All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records."
"Familiarity can provide the misguided illusion of understanding. Assume nothing."
"Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive."
"When you speak and your words fall on deaf ears, know that the universe listens."
"Angel dust blown a sunder,Nestling on the edge of unchartered dreams,Filtering the dileneation between ones desires & needs."
"I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me."
"There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked STACKS and the other TOMES. Not knowing the difference between the two, I headed to the ones labeled STACKS. That was what I wanted. Stacks of books. Great heaps of books. Shelf after endless shelf of books."
"I love her more than just a little. I think it's because we're both somewhat broken, in our own odd ways. More importantly, we're both aware of it."
"Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse."
"I shook again, tasted plum, and suddenly the words were pouring out of me."She said I sang before I spoke. She said when I was just a baby she had the habit of humming when she held me. Nothing like a song. Just a descending third. Just a soothing sound. Then one day she was walking me around the camp, and she heard me echo it back to her. Two octaves higher. A tiny piping third. She said it was my first song. We sang it back and forth to each other. For years."I choked and clenched my teeth."You can say it,"Auri said softly."It's okay if you say it.""I'm never going to see her again,"I choked out. Then I began to cry in earnest."It's okay,"Auri said softly."I'm here. You're safe."
"I guess to just keep playing music; to just keep outdoing the last record."
"You have to appreciate where you have come from to know who you are in the present and whom you would like to be in the future."
"I don't know, I think people who meet me just get pretty much what I am."
"I deliberately fly in and out of LA for as small a time as humanly possible."
"We are never truly ourselves as we are mid-roll."
"Embrace life in totality."
"Accept the past, dream of the future, but live in the moment."
"My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all."
"Phaedra of Alonso's death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage."
"I don't care whose son he is. I won't go belly-up like a timid pup. If he's fool enough to take a poke at me, I'll snap the finger clean off that does the poking."
"I am Edema Ruh to my bones. That means my blood is red. It means I breathe the free air and walk where my feet take me. I do not cringe and fawn like a dog at a man's title. That looks like pride to people who have spent their lives cultivating supple spines."
"Jiu Jitsu is a baptism by combat, and serves a purpose in the inner life of the individual that has always existed, but our modern culture fails to acknowledge."
"For us Australians, Singapore also represents sacred soil. Almost 2000 Australians died here in the defense of your island country and our neighborhood."
"I love you with an intensity that is beyond reasoning."
"Do not seek victory, for victory in itself will not serve you. Seek to understand what made the victory possible."
"I have found the more worthwhile something is, the more of your life is required to achieve it."
"The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear."
"God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it."
"My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it."
"We all know that when the lights are out all women are the same height!"
"Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing."
"You are so close I want to breath you in."
"I'm so deeply in love with you it's hard to fathom. No words could provide quantifiable resonance or measure."
"Luck plays no part in the divinity of the moment that is set to transpire and make two unite into one burning flame of eternal love."
"There is no higher calling than the service of your fellow man, and to do so through your own personal mastery of a craft is a gift enjoyed by few."
"Soundless echoes - no voice,Sadness doth keep thee at bay,Stagnation rises as ebb & flow,Nothing alters,Unless you choose to break away."
"I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies."
"I want you to make a habit of wanting me."
"I could hear the human noise as were standing still in between the spaces of silence."
"What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change."
"Today's world is flooded with participation trophies. In an attempt to promote equality we have robbed our youth of the most growth-inducing aspect of competition, failing. If you want to be resurrected, you have to first be crucified. Everybody wants to be reborn, but no one is willing to die. Losing, in the context of whatever arena it may be, is a microcosmic death. When we learn from our failures and grow because of them, we are reborn."
"He hesitated, remembering something Finnikin had said to him on their journey. That somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted."
"I want to share in endless ways, My expression of love for you, I'm no longer the beast of burden, Twas lifted when I fell for you."
"If you listen closely, silence can be deafening."
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