Rescue Quotes - Page 10

• By all means," cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. "A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates!" "There's not much of it left to storm," said Eilonwy. "Oh?" said Fflewddur, with disappointment. "Very well, we shall do the best we can.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Disappointment, Mean, Eye

  Lloyd Alexander (2013). “The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.82, Macmillan

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• Now when Túrin learnt from Finduilas of what had passed, he was wrathful, and he said to Gwindor: 'In love I hold you for your rescue and sake-keeping. But now you have done ill to me, friend, to betray my right name, and call my doom upon me, from which I would lie hid.' But Gwindor answered: 'The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lying, Names, Sake

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• Klaus Wulfenbach: Was my son upset? Bangladesh DuPree: Oh, him? Yeah! He's all set to be a hero and rescue her--and then he finds out he'd need fireplace tongs to get her undressed? Yeah, upset is the word.

  Phil Foglio

  Hero, Son, Upset

  "Girl Genius". Comic series by Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio, (2001-).

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• She refused to think of Neil, brave and quiet, whose reward for a heroic rescue was to be slowly devoured by strange cave balloons.

  Brandon Mull

  Thinking, Brave, Caves

  Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2009). “Grip of the Shadow Plague”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

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• Bleep if I was going to stage a rescue in a freaking pantsuit.

  Kiersten White

  Stage, Ifs

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• Adina appealed to the sky. "We asked for rescue and you sent us incompetent rockstar pirates with a broken ship and perfect abs?" "Thank you, God," Petra said.

  Libba Bray

  Sky, Broken, Perfect

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• ...as your father, my instinct is to protect you ... Other people will want to protect you too. But remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. Forget the prince. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself.

  Brad Meltzer

  Father, People, Waiting

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• She gave him a wan smile. "And then you came, Eragon. You and Saphira. After hope had deserted me and I was about to be taken to Galbatorix in Uru'baen, a Rider appeared to rescue me. A rider and a dragon!" "And Morzan's son," he said. "Both of Morzan's sons." "Describe it how you will, it was such an improbable rescue, I occasionally think that I did go mad and that I've imagined everything since.

  Christopher Paolini

  Taken, Son, Thinking

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• But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. 'Might makes right,' and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies.

  Adin Ballou

  Crush, Army, Careers

  Adin Ballou (1848). “Christian non-resistance, in all its important bearings, illustrated and defended”, p.87

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• Hazel had read enough books to know that a line like this one is the line down which your life breaks in two. And you have to think very carefully about whether you want to cross it, because once you do it’s very hard to get back to the world you left behind. And sometimes you break a barrier that no one knew existed, and then everything you knew before crossing the line is gone. But sometimes you have a friend to rescue. And so you take a deep breath and then step over the line and into the darkness ahead.

  Anne Ursu

  Book, Thinking, Two

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• Jack leaped over the gate, his sword aflame. To vanquish his foe and rescue his love.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  His Love, Vanquish, Foe

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• Well, I believe she went in to rescue some Raggers from the pits,” Cuffs said. “She wasn’t all that specific.” “She went in to rescue — why would she do that?” Amon gripped the ironwork, studying the streetlord’s face. Was he lying? And if so, what was the purpose? “Guess she’s kind of taken with us,” Cuffs said. “You know, the glamor of the gang life and all. Getting beat up every other day, arrested for crimes you didn’t commit, long nights in gaol, sleeping in the cold and wet. It’s...seductive.” He raised an eyebrow.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Lying, Believe, Taken

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• TO ALL THE ambulance drivers firewatchers air-raid wardens nurses canteen workers airplane spotters rescue workers mathematicians vicars vergers shopgirls chorus girls librarians debutantes spinsters fishermen retired sailors servants evacuees Shakespearean actors and mystery novelists WHO WON THE WAR.

  Connie Willis

  Girl, War, Airplane

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• Wow. What'd he do to deserve that? Rescue orphans from a burning building? If so, you might want to make sure he didn't set the building on fire in the first place.

  Richelle Mead

  Fire, Rose, Burning

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.231, Penguin

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• Ikkaku: Rescue her? How many of you are here? Seven? Maybe eight? Ichigo: Five people and a cat

  Tite Kubo

  Cat, Eight, People

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• Well met, Mistress Lirael. This ragamuffin, as your servant so aptly described him, is His Highness Prince Sameth, the Abhorsen-in-Waiting. Hence the bells. But on to more serious matters. Could you please rescue us? Prince Sameth's personal vessel is not quite what I'm used to, and he is eager to catch me a fish before my morning nap.

  Garth Nix

  Morning, Naps, Waiting

  Garth Nix (2014). “Lirael”, p.249, Hot Key Books

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• How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to whom we entrust our care!

  Rick Yancey

  Design, Adults, Care

  Rick Yancey (2009). “The Monstrumologist”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Women, Years, Lasts

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.308, A&C Black

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• I am the flying saucer man from another world trapped on yours until they come to rescue me. One day the saucer will land. Jimi Hendrix and John Coltrane will open the hatch and tell me to get in before someone tries to blow up the ship. I'll just ask what took them so long. Within seconds we'll be out of here.

  Henry Rollins

  Blow, Men, Land

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• I operate under the assumption that people don't notice the good in me. That's just how things always seem to play out. I get blamed, while con-artist kids like Venus, and Camille, and Gemma get believed. But the rescue lady noticed. In the background, just observing, she noticed.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Kids, Artist, Play

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• No", Tori said, " I kidnapped her and forced her to escape with me. I've been using her as a human shield against those guys with guns, and I was just about to strangle her and leave her body here to throw them off my trail. But then you showed up and foiled my evil plans. Lucky for you, though. You get to rescue chloe again and win her undying grattitude.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Gun, Winning, Evil

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• Ascension seemed at such times a natural law. If one added to it a law of completion - that everything must finally be made comprehensible - then some general rescue of the sort I imagined my aunt to have undertaken would be inevitable. For why do our thoughts turn to some gesture of a hand, the fall of a sleeve, some corner of a room on a particular anonymous afternoon, even when we are asleep, and even when we are so old that our thoughts have abandoned other business? What are all these fragments for , if not to be knit up finally?

  Marilynne Robinson

  Fall, Aunt, Law

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Housekeeping: A Novel”, p.92, Macmillan

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• Silverstream: You idiot!!! What are you doing in my territory??? Graystripe:...Drowning? Silverstream: Can't you do that in your own territory? Graystripe: Ah, but who would rescue me there?

  Erin Hunter

  Territory, Idiot, Drowning

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• Zach had rushed down to rescue me without remembering to put a shirt on...Maybe I had died and gone to heaven.

  Meg Cabot

  Heaven, Gone, Remember

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• There are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is so steep you can’t bear to look. Not even love can rescue a person from that. Still, enveloped in the twilight coming from the west, there she was, watering the plants with her slender, graceful hands, in the midst of a light so sweet it seemed to form a rainbow in the transparent water she poured.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Sweet, Twilight, Heart

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.42, Grove Press

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