“Spuneţi repede, domnule, că n-am vreme. Eu sînt la odihnă.”
Source: Pietonul aerului. Regele moare
“It was Valentine's Day, that night of cheesy dinners, awkward forced conversations, and the sickening smell of plastic roses.”
“This Kingdom had a total Manpower of around 100,000 troops. They were divided like so:
40,000 in the army, led by Duke Georg Carmine.
10,000 in the navy, led by Dutchess Excel Walter.
1,000 in the air force, led by Duke Castor Vargas.
(However, one wyvern knight was said to be equivalent to 100 soldiers from the army.)
...
Now, the remaining troops, numbering a little over forty thousand, belong to the Forbidden Army, but they were two further divided with that.”
Source: How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom, Volume 1
“Who needs horsepower when you've got manpower?”
Source: Quote: +/-
“Some survivors can be wary of most people, yet blinded by compassion toward fellow survivors or others who suffer — or who pretend to suffer, or exaggerate their sufferings, in order to take advantage of the survivor. Some survivors overidentify with other survivors, not realizing that even if someone was traumatized or suffers in a similar way, it doesn’t necessarily mean that person is honest. Being either overly suspicious or overly trusting can create problems with a partner who is able to judge the sincerity of others more realistically.”
Source: Loving Someone with PTSD: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Connecting with Your Partner after Trauma
“A new trunk had grown, covering the scar of the burn with thick new growth. Not hiding it, no, for the past could never be hidden, but embracing it with new hope and new dreams so that both past and present formed one unified trunk that continued to shelter our people as we lived on in the shadows of the great Blue Mountains that had seen an eternity and stood ready to face another.”
Source: The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories
“An envious heart can't be original.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“There's lower wisdom in comment.”
Source: Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
“Doubt isn't original.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Good-bye,' I said to them, but they didn't seem to hear me, and why would they have wanted to? Why would they have wanted to do with the world outside of each other? Outside each other, they were mean little human beings like the rest of us, the kind of people you both loathed and pitied. Separately, they were characters, and not in a good way. But together they were something to wonder at and maybe even envy. I had this unoriginal thought as I walked out the door and toward my van: love changes us, makes us into people whom others then want to love. That's why, to those of us without it, love is the voice asking, What else? What else? And to those of us who have had love and lost it or thrown it away, then love is the voice that leads us back to love, to see if it might still be ours or if we've lost it, love is also the thing that makes us speak in aphorisms about love, which is why we try to get love back, so we can stop speaking that way. Aphoristically, that is.”
Source: An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England