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Quotes by Australian Authors
"I firmly believe that life will continually try to teach you the same lesson, with increasing pain, until you heed the call."
"My soul will always find its way to yours because home is where the heart is."
"Are you calling us pigs?' Froi asked, watching as Rafuel winced for the tenth time at the formality of Froi's Charyn.Rafuel thought for a moment and then nodded.'Actually yes, I am. Pig-like.'Froi turned back to Trevanion and Perri, who were discussing the need for longbow training in the rock village.'What is it?' Perri asked Froi.'He said we eat like pigs.'Trevanion and Perri thought about it for a moment and then went back to their conversation."
"Find my hand in the darkness, intertwined you will be the day to my night. We can share wings and take flight towards our own inner light."
"Don't rely on the opinions of others. Only you will know what is right for you."
"I want to drink from you're life force."
"Maybe memories should be left the way they are."
"All that I am. All that I will be is defined by this moment."
"Hespe's mouth went firm. She didn't scowl exactly, but it looked like she was getting all the pieces of a scowl together in one place, just in case she needed them in a hurry."
"Just handle the books gently and you'll get along fine."
"Never deviate from the path unless you are going to make love in the bushes ....."
"You are my dark turned to bright, the day into my light. A vision of splendour to my lights, light."
"My love let me be your chalice your holy grail of dreams."
"Contained within the breadth of my heart where you belong unto me and I unto you."
"If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street."
"Totally present in this moment for you."
"Your job as a young adult is to become as valuable to the marketplace as you can. Your job as a human is to do so without working a day in your life."
"What is a whore?"Unsurprisingly, that hadn't been one of the words we had shared over the last span of days. For half a moment I considered lying, but there was no way I could manage it. "He says your mother is a person men pay money to have sex with."Tempi turned back to the mercenary and nodded graciously. "You are very kind. I thank you."
"Never hesitate to let the one you love know how you feel. Align your minds, synchronise your hearts and above be fearless when dancing with their souls."
"Once I knew what was bothering me, the greater part of my uneasiness left. Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear."
"The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn's ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die."
"I hope you're not smoking in front of her,' Lucia says to him.'Yeah, I lie in bed and puff in her face, Lucia,' he says, irritated."
"I am insatiable - aim to sate me but never dull my flames of desire that are fuelled by the existence of you."
"Choose to be happy. It's the only sensible option!"
"When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due."
"Thoreau and Huxley calmly state what I have spent years trying to articulate, and never found the words for doing so. To read the words of these great men is to read the highest expression of my very self which is inexpressible due to the shortcomings of my particular nature."
"The measure of space & time creates an echo of haunting distance between us, yet we are close, we are united in the love we forge together."
"It still amazes him how they could have been misled by her personality in Year Eleven. It's what depression does to a person, it changes them completely."
"If she was beautiful at rest she was doubly so awake. Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself."
"The quality of your life is directly proportional to the positive effect you have on others' lives."
"Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy."
"Forever and always from me to you. My love is pure, my love is true. It is gifted to none other than you."
"All I have ever wanted, needed, dreamed and desired is contained within you."
"The moon had never been as bright as the shine it was granting the sky with, committing every moment until sunrise."
"Her soul whispers to his, "Take me. I am ready."
"Devoting yourself to a particular art is invaluable. The art becomes our vehicle with which we drive down the road of life. We use this vehicle to learn about ourselves and this place, to conquer fears, to become more of what we already are. In my own life, I have found most valuable the transferable skills of learning from jiu jitsu to all other facets of day to day study. In devoting myself with such commitment to this art, in undertaking the task of understanding jiu jitsu to whatever degree by circumstance allows, I have unknowingly learned how to learn."
"If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. Nothing's off limits. But the endless possibility of the genre is a trap. It's easy to get distracted by the glittering props available to you and forget what you're supposed to be doing: telling a good story. Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be."
"Thank you for existing."
"They were everything they ought to be and nothing else."
"It is only in embracing my darkness that we can appreciate our life in the light."
"At times it's like sadness has planted itself on her face, refusing to leave, an overwhelming sadness, and sometimes I see despair there, too."
"I will never want for more. You are my totality."
"But only a fool claims there is no such thing as love. When you see two young ones taring at each other with dewy eyes, there it is. So thick you can spread it on your brread and eat it. When you see a mother with her child, you see love. When you feel it roil in your belly, you know what it is. Even if you cannot give voice to it in words."
"I pastor a very large church in western Australia. We have about - over 2,000 people, which we have a Bible school, community services, a lot of things linked with it. So my life's very full today. Not enough days in the week."
"Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts."
"We have an obligation to ourselves to foster the environment that allows for our self-actualization. Rather than my gifts serving me, I must serve them. I want to be a steward of the best aspects of my character and assist them in their fulfillment through proper discipline and habits."
"Our social contract is becoming an exchange of free thought for mindless stimuli."
"So many thoughts, my kvothe. you know too much to be happy."
"The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance."
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