Towers Quotes - Page 26

• Black for hunting through the night For death and mourning the color's white Gold for a bride in her wedding gown And red to call the enchantment down White silk when our bodies burn Blue banners when the lost return Flame for the birth of a Nephilim And to wash away our sins. Gray for the knowledge best untold Bone for those who don't grow old Saffron lights the victory march Green to mend our broken hearts Silver for the demon towers And bronze to summon wicked powers -Shadowhunter children's rhyme

  Cassandra Clare

  Children, Heart, Hunting

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• I don’t want to be a Princess,” she said finally. “You can’t make me be one.” She knew very well what became of Princesses, as Princesses often get books written about them. Either terrible things happened to them, such as kidnappings and curses and pricking fingers and getting poisoned and locked up in towers, or else they just waited around till the Prince finished with the story and got around to marrying her. Either way, September wanted nothing to do with Princessing.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Book, Princess, Want

  Catherynne M. Valente (2012). “The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There”, p.107, Macmillan

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• He is a man of the Night's Watch, She thought, as he sang about some stupid lady throwing herself off some stupid tower because her stupid prince was dead. The lady should go kill the ones who killed her prince. Arya Stark (page 514)

  George R. R. Martin

  Stupid, Night, 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.3184, Bantam

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• XXVIII "Truth," said a traveller, "Is a rock, a mighty fortress; "Often have I been to it, "Even to its highest tower, "From whence the world looks black." "Truth," said a traveller, "Is a breath, a wind, "A shadow, a phantom; "Long have I pursued it, "But never have I touched "The hem of its garment." And I believed the second traveller; For truth was to me A breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom, And never had I touched The hem of its garment.

  Stephen Crane

  Rocks, Wind, Long

  Stephen Crane (1998). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116

  Darren Shan

  Destiny, Cards, Nudge

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• Jack Aubrey is a tremendous tower of strength and you always want to read about him.

  Clive James

  Want

  "Summer Series: Clive James, in the face of death". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. December 21, 2015.

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• The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees by the dark lake burned and dripped, their leaves snatched by the wind were whirled in wild circles through the towers. The clouds mouldered as they lay coiled, or shifted themselves uneasily upon the stone skyfield, sending up wreathes that drifted through the turrets and swarmed up hidden walls.

  Mervyn Peake

  Wall, Dark, Lakes

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.161, The Overlook Press

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• It's the great male fantasy-all it takes is one dance to know that she's the one. All it takes is the sound of her song from the tower, or a look at her sleeping face. And right away you know-this is the girl in your head, sleeping or dancing or singing in front of you. Yes, girls want princes, but boys want their princesses just as much.

  Rachel Cohn

  Girl, Song, Princess

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.121, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• At the snowy summit of all these things, however, is the fact that you simply cannot go about locking your siblings in towers when they misbehave. It is unseemly and betrays a sad lack of creativity.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Sibling, Creativity, Facts

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• Stealing swords,” Royce muttered mostly to himself. “Okay, let’s take a look at this tower. The sooner I see it, the sooner I can start cursing.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Looks, Stealing, Cursing

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• Why are tall guys always attracted to short women? Not just moderately short women, either... Tiny women. Polly Pockets. The tallest guys always-always-always go for the shortest girls. Always. It's like they're so infatuated with their own height that they want to be with someone who makes them feel even taller. Someone they can tower over. A little doll that will make them feel even bigger and stronger.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Girl, Guy, Stronger

  Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• I've started researching online journals for the project. Thanks for decoding Dr. Heller's notes before sending them to me. If you'd have forwarded them to me without a translation, I'd be searching for a tall building/overpass/water tower from which to yell "goodbye cruel world.

  Tammara Webber

  Goodbye, Water, Drs

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• Gabrielle was insulted and didn't even bother to hide it. 'Oh, and I suppose you think your dad was alone when he free-climbed the Kyoto Banking Tower on a windy day last September.

  Ally Carter

  Dad, Thinking, Kyoto

  Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.193, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• you know this means that what we did-what we almost did in Paris-" "Going to the Eiffel Tower?

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Paris, Eiffel Tower

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.2282, Simon and Schuster

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• (Jace) "Is there anything special you want to see? Paris? Budapest? The Leaning Tower of Pisa?" Only if it falls on Sebastian's head, she thought.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fall, Special You, Paris

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1994, Simon and Schuster

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• I famously stole tons of VHS tapes from a video store I worked in. It was detailed in my special, Laboring Under Delusions. I worked at Tower Video and stole a bunch of videotapes from them, and then got caught and had to return the videotapes. It was a mortifying experience.

  Paul F. Tompkins

  Special, Tape, Video

  "Paul F. Tompkins wants to ride a giant bison to work". Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. February 4, 2016.

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• How fleeting the sorrows of youth, how slight the foundations on which the young build towers of despair.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sorrow, Despair, Foundation

  "Yesterdays" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, ("Forward"), 1910.

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• I met this wonderful guy who owned an old pub near the Eiffel Tower called Malone's (he's French but it's an Irish name). He had a cellar with a piano and told me I could use it whenever I wanted to. I played lots of gigs down there. When I came back I played a show at the Knitting Factory.

  Regina Spektor

  Knitting, Names, Piano

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• The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.

  Stephen King

  Kings, Honey, Bread

  Stephen King, Peter Straub (2012). “Black House: A Novel”, p.470, Simon and Schuster

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• I do know that if you can name certain things and understand them, it allows you to make better choices. Unfortunately, there's so much misinformation that towers over a person's head, it's really difficult to make the right decisions. Consequently, we just go along because it's way too hard to sift through the information.

  Jimmy Santiago Baca

  Names, Choices, Decision

  Interview with Barbara Stahura, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2003.

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• Things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth. Politicians might mention renewable energy, and the public will think, "That sounds good, but I don't believe they're going to do everything they can to build those towers."

  Zephyr Teachout

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The people who died in the Twin Towers in that terrible crime mattered. The people who were bombed to death in dusty villages in Afghanistan didn't matter, even though it now seems that their numbers were greater. The people who will die in Iraq don't matter.

  John Pilger

  Iraq, Numbers, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers attack. Man, have they got ways for getting half-truths out right away now, thanks to TV! I think TV is a calamity in a democracy.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Thinking, Democracy

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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• I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.

  Carl Jung

  House, Stones, Confession

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life in a tower of books. I would read all day long and eat peaches. And if any young knights in armor dared to come calling on their white chargers and plead with me to let down my hair, I would pelt them with peach pits until they went home.

  Jacqueline Kelly

  Book, Home, Knights

  Jacqueline Kelly (2009). “The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate”, p.16, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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