“E' semplice buttare altra terra sulla buca per ricoprirla meglio e creare una montagnola, la parte difficile è scavare. - pag. 108”
Source: A volte corro piano
“Dormire è solo una pausa tra una fatica e l'altra.”
Source: Non è mai troppo tardi
“Perhaps they never left the island when construction was complete," Otto replied.
Wing raised an eyebrow. "A true job for life."
"Or a life for a job," Otto countered. He wouldn't be at all surprised, given the emphasis on total secrecy, if H.I.V.E. offered an "aggressive" retirement package for lower-level employees. Here, being fired was probably a term that was taken a little too literally.”
Source: H.I.V.E. Higher Institute of Villainous Education
“I'll have to remember that for the future. When in a life-or-death battle, be sure to club unconscious everyone on your side as early on in the fight as possible," Laura said, laughing.”
Source: H.I.V.E. Higher Institute of Villainous Education
“H.I.V.E. will not tolerate unauthorized violence between students, especially students that have only been here for a matter of hours."
"I was just introducing myself," Otto replied innocently. "I'm afraid I appear to have inadvertently offended them somehow.”
Source: H.I.V.E. Higher Institute of Villainous Education
“So you see, you have nothing to be afraid of."
Oh no, thought Otto, just squads of hired goons wandering around with experimental energy weapons. Nothing to be afraid of at all.”
Source: H.I.V.E. Higher Institute of Villainous Education
“C'insegnano un sacco di cose inutili, tipo piegare le camicie o le guerre napoleoniche, e cose vitali come usare la bussola mai.”
Source: Più lontana della luna
“I guess we're all, or most of us, the wards of that nineteenth-century science which denied existence to anything it could not measure or explain. The things we couldn't explain went right on but surely not with our blessing. We did not see what we couldn't explain, and meanwhile a great part of the world was abandoned to children, insane people, fools, and mystics, who were more interested in what is than in why it is. So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic, because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.”
Source: The Winter of our Discontent
“Wir Juden haben die Völker mit einem ewigen Gott belastet, und darum hassen sie uns.”
Source: Shosha
“[W]e must leave in order to achieve distance... a new perspective that is rational, understanding, AND loving and obedient, and in keeping with our faith... It is our duty to leave. Not fighting, but moving on.”
Source: Women Talking