The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory by Thomas Fuller
Desire is a tree with leaves, hope is a tree in bloom, enjoyment is a tree with fruit.
Sleep No More by Seanan McGuire
Romantic love is not required to live a full and happy life, my seedlings,” Father had told us, watching carefully to be sure we took his message to heart, “but if you cannot love one who loves you truly in return, find friends, find companions, find people who will tell you the truths you cannot carry and unveil the lies you cannot see. Most of all, cleave to each other, for you will be the only sure support you have in all this world.
The force of their wanting cut channels in the world.
You’re his child because parentage is so much more than blood. Parentage is showing up and being present, is love and learning and compassion and care.
Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds
Svetlana forced herself to nod. She could never quite overcome a lingering prejudice against the comet miners. They were too brave, too courageous. Svetlana thought that the only kind of person you wanted anywhere near any part of a fusion motor was someone with a strong aversion to risk.
Cowards were exactly the kind of people you wanted around nuclear technology.
“You could give scheming lessons to Machiavelli,” Parry said.
“I did. He flunked.”
Sword & Thistle by S.L. Rowland
When he smiled, Dobbin recognized him by his missing front teeth. Hildir had lost them in an unfortunate accident involving too many drinks, a frying pan, and a gelatinous cube.
On nights like this, he wondered if he could ever truly give it up. The traveling, the exploration, meeting new people, and experiencing the hidden treasures of Aedrea. To settle down in one place for the rest of his life trapped in a cage…
Then again, wasn’t that what books were for? He could live a hundred lives and still sleep in a warm bed at night.
“We’re adventurers. We make our living doing stupid things.”
“You can lead a griffin to the mountains, but you can’t make it fly.”
Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes by Moshe Kasher
Once at the mechanic, you find out what the problem is. Busted transmission, engine failure, acute cirrhosis. That knowledge is VITAL. Without it you cannot move forward. But that knowledge doesn’t fix the car. It only makes the fixing of the car possible.
I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger
The world was so old and exhausted that many now saw it as a dying great-grand on a surgical table, body decaying from use and neglect, mind fading down to a glow.
Lark laughed. It was her habit when delighted to rise lightly on tiptoe as if forgotten by gravity.
Why do this to yourself you say, and I reply Why not?
As enemies go, despair has every ounce of my respect.
He was suspected of wisdom but it’s a tough thing to prove …
The Innocent Sleep by Seanan McGuire
Love is a knife forever suspended an inch from your heart, and if it falls or you stumble into it, you can all too easily find yourself impaled and bleeding.
Like every other baby I’d seen, he looked nothing like his parents, and more like the unpleasant blend of a salmon and a drowned human.
From a great enough height, even water may turn into a weapon.
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