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“Thanks, Baba. You are always such a comfort." She gave him a wry look. "I know. I've been considering becoming a counselor. Or possibly a nurse." Day shook his head. "If I were you, Baba Yaga, I'd stick to your day job.”

Book:Dangerously Charming

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“Not my job to judge, boy." Baba Yaga filled and lit the pipe again. "But I do observe that its difficult to escape familiar patterns. When you live your life with cruel words, you look for people to give them to you. When you escape and evil stepmother, you take an uncaring bride. When your father throws you out, you love someone who won't love you back. And to keep yourself in cruelty, you're willing to risk head and hands on the mayors side board. Keep the pattern going. Hm.”

Baba Yaga Steampunk Fairy Tales

Book:Clockwork Fairy Tales: A Collection of Steampunk Fables

Source: Clockwork Fairy Tales: A Collection of Steampunk Fables

“Liam's lips tightened. "She's only a little girl. She doesn't know anything about swords. What if she cuts herself? It's sharp, right?" "Of course it is sharp, Liam. What would be the point ot having a sword that wasn't?”

Witches Baba Yaga Family Vacation Three Impossible Tasks

Book:Wickedly Ever After

Source: Wickedly Ever After

“Anya had never seen a house uglier house than Baba Yaga’s. It was made entirely of mouldy bones in the same interlocking design as a log cabin. A thorny garden grew as high as the fence and skulls, bleached white by the sun, capped each fence post. Two enormous scaly chicken legs came out on either side of the house. Anya snorted in amusement and disgust. Yvan, she noticed, had turned an interesting shade of grey.”

Baba Yaga Bone House

Book:Cry of the Firebird

Source: Cry of the Firebird

“[Cat] found a complete set of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, with little tabs of paper sticking out. The were scrawled over with the witch's comments to herself, "Fun!" "Try this, but with exploding feathers!" and "Gotta love him -- deeply sick.”

Humor Baba Yaga Poe

Author:Gregory Maguire

“But godhead is, after all, a matter of fact, not a matter of opinion: if a man is generally worshipped as a god then he is a god. And if a god ceases to be worshipped he is nothing.”

Worship 1935 Godhood Claudius

Book:Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina

Source: Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina

“The Roman Road is the greatest monument ever raised to human liberty by a noble and generous people. It runs across mountain, marsh and river. It is built broad, straight and firm. It joins city with city and nation with nation. It is tens of thousands of miles long, and always thronged with grateful travellers. And while the Great Pyramid, a few hundred feet high and wide, awes sight-seers to silence—though it is only the rifled tomb of an ignoble corpse and a monument of oppression and misery, so that no doubt in viewing it you may still seem to hear the crack of the taskmaster's whip and the squeals and groans of the poor workmen struggling to set a huge block of stone into position——”

Rant Monuments Great Pyramid 1935 Claudius Seven Wonders Roman Road

Book:Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina

Source: Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina

“Reclaim your energy with tiny shifts—pause between tasks, take a midday walk, or unplug before bed. Rest can fit into any schedule.”

Inspiration Motivation Leadership Balance Mindfulness Productivity Wellness Thrive Selfcare Recharge

Book:Overcoming Mediocrity: Limitless Women

Source: Overcoming Mediocrity: Limitless Women

“On occasions of this sort it was, I must admit, very pleasurable to be a monarch: to be able to get important things done by smothering stupid opposition with a single authoritative word.”

Autocracy Red Tape 1935 Claudius Monarchism

Book:Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina

Source: Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina

“And I learned this phrase off by heart and constantly made it my salvation. I used to throw up my hands, shut my eyes, and declaim: ‘Words fail me, my Lords. Nothing that I might utter could possibly match the depth of my feelings in this matter.’ Then I would pause for a few seconds and recover the thread of my argument.”

Claudius

Book:Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina

Source: Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina

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