L Quotes
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“Ly Kim Nguyen recently retired from her career in the education sector and is spending her retirement as peacefully as possible.”
“Lyall had spent centuries nibbling about the great layered cake that was polite society while Lord Akeldama acted the part of the frosting on its top.”
Source: Blameless: Book 3 of The Parasol Protectorate
“Lyall understood a broken heart, but it could not be allowed to rumple perfectly good shirtwaists.”
Source: Blameless: Book 3 of The Parasol Protectorate
“Lyall wanted Tristan’s kisses and his body and to have him close enough his scent would permeate rooms and make him smile when he walked into them. But he didn’t want it more than he wanted Tristan’s words, rushed in a voice messages and often too formal in emails, and in perfectly composed lectures full of masterful analogies. And not just for him, but for other people who needed to hear they didn’t have to be trapped by the vicissitudes of chance, that their bodies could be coaxed into allowing them enough freedom to find happiness—for without freedom there was no happiness possible.
The distance would be harder, but it did not mean more than their closeness.”
Source: Runt of the litter
“LYB NBC—which means “love ya, babe; nuts, back & critters”—the first half being pretty self-explanatory. Less obviously, “nuts, back, and critters” means watch out for crazy people, watch your back because you can’t trust anyone, and don’t run over any animals.”
Source: Binge
“Lyc-V is a jealous virus. It exterminates all other invaders with extreme prejudice.”
Source: Magic Bleeds: A Kate Daniels Novel: 4
“Lycans are human.”
Source: Red Moon
“Lycka är inte en kejserlig handelsvara,
Frihet är ingen kolonisatörs arvegods.
Glädje är ingen fanatikers förfäders arv,
Jorden är inte en sionistisk egendom.”
Source: Världsviking: Gudomlig Poesi
“Lycka är inte frånvaron av sorg, lycka är förmågan att övervinna sorg.”
Source: Sapionova: 200 Limericks for Students
“Lycos needs to be bought because other suitors will have to pay a higher premium”
“Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not make his government democratical rather than oligarchical, "Go you," replied the legislator, "and try a democracy in your own house.”
“Lycurgus the Lacedæmonian brought long hair into fashion among his countrymen, saying that it rendered those that were handsome more beautiful, and those that were deformed more terrible. To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, "Pray," said Lycurgus, "do you first set up a democracy in your own house."”
“Lycurgus was of opinion that ornaments were so far from advantaging them in their counsels, that they were rather an hindrance, by diverting their attention from the business before them to statues and pictures, and roofs curiously fretted, the usual embellishments of such places amongst the other Greeks.”
Source: Plutarch's Lives: Volume I
“Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.”
Source: Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel
“Lyda was an exuberant, even a dramatic gardener.... She was always holding up a lettuce or a bunch of radishes with an air of resolute courage, as though she had shot them herself.”
“Lydgate certainly had good reason to reflect on the service his practice did him in counteracting his personal cares. He had no longer free energy enough for spontaneous research and speculative thinking, but by the bedside of patients, the direct external calls on his judgment and sympathies brought the added impulse needed to draw him out of himself. It was not simply that beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectably and unhappy men to live calmly — it was a perpetual claim on the immediate fresh application of thought, and on the consideration of another’s need and trial.”
Source: Middlemarch a Study in Provincial Life, Vol. 2
“Lydia Barratt, "táim in grá leat." Erik took a knee. "Say ya will marry me lassie.”
Source: Spellbound
“Lydia can't see it from the dark place where she is, but she can sense it. She knows that it's the perfect time of day out there in the desert. She imagines the colors making a show of themselves outside. The glittering gray pavement, the aching red land. The colors streaking flamboyantly across the sky. When she closes her eyes, she can see them, the paint in the firmament. Dazzling. Purple, yellow, orange, pink, and blue. She can see those perfect colors, hot and bright, a feathered headdress. Beneath, the landscape stretches out its arms.”
Source: American Dirt
“Lydia displays her right hand and instantly bathed the room with a blinding light. It lasted only a moment before it drew back into her palm.
“I can fix you if you’re ever broken.”
“Lydia had devoted herself- and her husband's money- toward making their home a "destination." She fancied herself floating through a household of the East Coast elite, dazzling them with continental cuisine, priceless art and antiques, and a perfectly stocked wine cellar. They would tour her gardens and marvel at her ability to create such a cultural oasis in the southern desert.
In reality, every evening Lydia watched her guests meander across her yard to the Belles', where they delighted in such southern delicacies as moonshine in Mason jars, bawdy conversation, and shoofly pie.”
Source: The Rock Orchard
“Lydia, I couldn't figure you out with a four hundred page manual and a telephone help line.”
Source: God Touched
“Lydia is constantly reminded that her education has no purchase here, that she has no access to the kind of information that has real currency on this journey. Among migrants, everyone knows more than she does. How do you find a coyote, make sure he's reputable, pay for your crossing, all without getting ripped off?”
Source: American Dirt
“Lydia paused, looking out at the forest, now decked with echoes of brilliant hues, and saw, to her delight, what Pit's seeds had grown into. For among the trees and bushes and vines, were the bright gold blossoms of dozens of sunflowers, turning their great beautiful heads towards the sun, and the world was filled with the sweet earthy fragrance of their flowers.”
Source: Lydia Green Of Mulberry Glen
“Lydia's English is a help, but there are many different languages in el norte. There are codes Lydia hasn't yet learned to decipher, subtle differences between words that mean almost, but not quite the same thing: migrant, immigrant, illegal alien. She learns that there are flags that people use here, and those flags may be a warning or a welcome. She is learning.”
Source: American Dirt
“Lydia siempre ha sido una madre devota, pero nunca codependiente, como esas madres que extrañan a sus hijos cuando están en la escuela o cuando duermen. Siempre atesoró ese tiempo para sí, para habitar sus propios pensamientos y descansar del incesante clamor emocional de la maternidad.”
Source: American Dirt
“Lydia was the kind of friend whom people referred to as a 'party favor' -- always fun to be around but she doesn't have any patience for suffering unless it's her own.”
Source: My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
“Lydia: Strange how you always remember the pain someone gave you, but seldom the hurt you caused them.”
“Lydig mot ingen, förtryckande mot ingen. Det är det mänskliga sättet.”
Source: Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None
“Lyell and Poulett Scrope, in this country, resumed the work of the Italians and of Hutton; and the former, aided by a marvellous power of clear exposition, placed upon an irrefragable basis the truth that natural causes are competent to account for all events, which can be proved to have occurred, in the course of the secular changes which have taken place during the deposition of the stratified rocks. The publication of 'The Principles of Geology,' in 1830, constituted an epoch in geological science. But it also constituted an epoch in the modern history of the doctrines of evolution, by raising in the mind of every intelligent reader this question: If natural causation is competent to account for the not-living part of our globe, why should it not account for the living part?”
Source: Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century, The
“Lying - remembering beauty in truth.”
“Lying about anything is the cruelest thing in the world you could ever do. Be who you are. Don't try to be someone you're not. It never works.”
“Lying about things large and small has become so accepted by so many that they even lie about lying.”
Source: Conversations with God, Book 3: Embracing the Love of the Universe (Anniv)
“Lying and cheating in advertising, in the long run, are commercial suicide. Dishonesty in advertising destroys not only confidence in advertising, but also in the medium which carries the dishonest advertisement. . . . No one can be ill in a community without endangering others; no advertiser can be dishonest without casting suspicion upon others.”
“Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves his lips he's lying.”
“Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.”
“lying awake beside you, these thoughts run through my head.”
Source: The Realm of Possibility
“Lying awake in the dark that night,unable to sleep, he thought he would have given anything to feel the heavy thud on the bed that used to announce the old dog's arrival. How extremely unloving and intolerant he had felt so often , waking in the middle of the night to the relentless shoving and pushing of his undesirable and selfish bedfellow.”
Source: The Incredible Journey
“Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something”
Source: A Million Little Pieces
“Lying can never save us from another lie.”
“Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes and laughable in everyone else's.”
Source: O
“Lying covers a multitude of sins - temporarily.”
“Lying curled up on the pavement, Rika understood; this was how Kajii's victims had died. The thing they had treasured had been cruelly shattered. She had to face it this time: Kajii was a killer. It didn't matter whether or not she'd murdered her victims with her own hands. Clearly, there resided within her a violent loathing of other people. Rika hadn't been able to see it until she herself had been struck off. The situation had come about through her own lack of care, but without the damage Kajii had inflicted on her, she would never have sunk this low. There was no doubt that those three men had experienced the same flow of emotions, the same shock.”
Source: Butter
“Lying damages others. Lying subtly permits us to destroy ourselves as we are caught in the snare and shatter our own self-image and credibility. Freedom from deceit and lying improves self and gives all of us peace of mind.”
Source: Ye Are My Friends
“Lying... definitely isn't right. But there's no one so perfect that they only do the right thing. For instance, fighting is wrong... but I've done it, Lin Hang's done it, even Qiu Tian's done it. But it's not like we're bad people for having done some wrong things... right? In this world, having a [requited] love is rare enough... that we are one of those few... is incredibly lucky.”
Source: 从谎言开始 [Cong Huang Yan Kai Shi]
“Lying didn't feel good; it just felt familiar.”
Source: Texas Outlaw
“Lying down is as important as flying with full throttle. You need to rest as much as you need to rest, and that's certainly not weakness. You need stability as much as you need courage. So, don't underestimate your pain or overestimate your strength.”
“Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth.”
“Lying flat on my back, with my toes dipped into the lake, I stared at the stars for a second. I guess I should have pondered their beauty and realized the rarity of a sky unsaturated by city lights, or something. But it occurred to me that you could probably see stars from the vast majority of the earth. It was city lights that were actually rare.”
Source: Like It Never Happened
“Lying had become second nature in my adult life. It was a way to spare strangers difficult conversations. The lies only ever pertained to my own information, and nothing I said was ever that important; the lies only served to keep me smiling, to keep the conversations from going off the cliff of sympathy, to keep me from breaking down.”
Source: The All-Night Sun
“Lying half-asleep in his embrace, I looked up and saw on his face the same expression I saw on countless lonely faces every day. It was the homesick look of the children who were lost in the chaos of warfare, witnessing death and disaster, longing for a meaningful touch.”
Source: The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood