Fierce Quotes - Page 14

• His beauty did not blaze like Will's did in fierce colors and repressed fire, but it had its own muted perfection, the loveliness of snow falling against a silver gray sky.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fall, Fire, Color

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• The amusement fled from Royce's face and with a groan he pulled her roughly against his chest, crushing her to him. "Jenny," he whispered hoarsely, burying his face in her fragrant hair. "Jenny, I love you." She melted against him, molding her body to the rigid contours of his, offering her lips up for his fierce, devouring kiss, then she took his face between both her hands. Leaning back slightly against his arm, her melting blue eyes gazing deeply into his, his wife replied in a shaky voice, "I think, my lord, I love you more.

  Judith McNaught

  Crush, Love You, Eye

  Judith McNaught (1991). “A Kingdom of Dreams”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering.

  Jodi Picoult

  Flames, Long, Lasts

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

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• I understood that Valek’s loyalty to the Commander was without question. His blue eyes held a fierce determination and I knew in my soul that Valek would take his own life after he had taken mine.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Loyalty, Determination, Taken

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.262, Harlequin

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• Dave hung up. And unplugged the phone. With a fierce and bitter pain he stared at it, watching how, over and over again, it didn't ring.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Pain, Phones, Bitter

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2016). “The Summer Tree: Book One of the The Fionavar Tapestry”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• I could just barely see the dark curve of his shoulder, and something about the shape it made, the gesture it suggested, filled me with a sort of fierce, awful affection.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dark, Curves, Shapes

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.77, Scholastic Inc.

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• He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

  Voltaire

  Wise, Severe

  "Epшtre au Roi de Prusse". Book by Voltaire (translated), 1740.

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• All that Syrio Forel had taught her went racing through her head. Swift as a deer. Quiet as shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Then man who fears losing has already lost. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords.

  George R. R. Martin

  Strong, Cutting, Men

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.476, Bantam

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• Her grey eyes sparkled with passion as she spoke. Sid looked into them and for a second he glimpsed her soul. He saw what she was - fierce and brave. Upright. Impatient. And good. So good that she would sit covered in gore, shout at dangerous men, and keep a long, lonely vigil - all to save the likes of him. He realized she was a rare creature, as rare as a rose in winter.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Lonely, Eye, Passion

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• When you peeled back the skin, you were dealing with bone and muscle, blood and nerve endings. It was all the same. She liked the beautiful logic of the circulatory system, the elegance of the neurological, and the fierce warrior spirit of the heart. The body had rules and it had quirks.

  Libba Bray

  Beautiful, Heart, Warrior

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.217, Scholastic Inc.

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• Then, as they stood there, struggling back and forth without avail, Eragon said in a low fierce voice, "I...see...you." A bright spark appeared in Arya's eyes, then vanished just as quickly.

  Christopher Paolini

  Struggle, Eye, Voice

  Christopher Paolini (2012). “Inheritance Deluxe Edition (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural identity and be “just humans” within the framework of white supremacy has usually meant that subordinate groups must surrender their identities, beliefs, values, and assimilate by adopting the values and beliefs of privileged-class whites, rather than promoting racial harmony this thinking has created a fierce cultural protectionism.

  Bell Hooks

  Thinking, Race, Attachment

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• Vane passed the mashed potatoes across Bride to Fury, who stared at them with a fierce frown "What are these?" he asked. "Potatoes," Vane told him. "What did they do to them?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Potatoes, Brides, Fury

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “The Dark-Hunters (The Collection Thus Far)”, p.2725, Macmillan

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• Katie had a fierce desire for survival which made her a fighter. Johnny had a hankering after immortality which made him a useless dreamer. And that was the great difference between these two who loved each other so well.

  Betty Smith

  Two, Differences, Dreamer

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.

  Rumi

  Love, Stars, Laughing

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.178, Penguin UK

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• His loyalty, so fierce and unwavering, makes my eyes water and heart ache.

  Emily Giffin

  Loyalty, Heart, Eye

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• His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that every peril in life is a form of sport, a fierce game betwixt you and Fate, with Death as a forfeit, made him a wonderful companion at such hours.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Sports, Appreciation, Drama

  H. Rider Haggard, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lin Carter, Rudyard Kipling, Eando Binder (2014). “The Lost World MEGAPACK ®: 22 Modern and Classic Tales”, p.161, Wildside Press LLC

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• Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes, we need gigantic, monumental changes. Schools should be palaces. The competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be making six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge to its citizens, just like national defense. That's my position. I just haven't figured out how to do it yet.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Teacher, School, Government

  "The West Wing". www.imdb.com. 1999–2006.

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• Loud, stupid and overeating will suffice as long as we also have the funny, the fierce and the intellectual

  Denis Leary

  Stupid, Long, Intellectual

  Denis Leary (2008). “Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid”, p.59, Penguin

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• More like some small, fierce bird of prey, something with a sharp bite. An owl perhaps, that speaks only when the rest of the world sleeps. Jenny will do well enough.

  Juliet Marillier

  Sleep, Bird, Owl

  Juliet Marillier (2008). “Daughter of the Forest: A Sevenwaters Novel 1”, p.133, Pan Australia

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• I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me, I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.

  Pat Conroy

  Writing, Voice, World

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• The wind sounds like a silver wire, And from beyond the noon a fire Is pour'd upon the hills, and nigher The skies stoop down in their desire; And, isled in sudden seas of light, My heart, pierced thro' with fierce delight, Bursts into blossom in his sight.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Fire, Light

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.295, Delphi Classics

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• His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache!

  Alexandre Dumas

  Husband, Men, Mustache

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• Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.

  Dorothy Allison

  Drama, Years, Twenties

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• Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus, nam'd of lamentation loud/ Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon/ Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage./ Far off from these a slow and silent stream,/ Lethe the River of Oblivion rolls/ Her wat'ry Labyrinth whereof who drinks,/ Forthwith his former state and being forgets,/ Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.

  John Milton

  Pain, Hate, Grief

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 02”

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