V Quotes
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“Violet Sorrengail, for the record, please tell me the name of the dragon who chose you."
I lift my chin. "Tairneanach."
The woman grins, shaking her head as she writes down his name. "I can't believe he bonded. Violet, he's a legend."
"Andarnaurram." The sweet, high voice of the golden fills my mind. "Andarna for short."
I feel the blood rush from my face, and the edges of my vision sway as I pivot on my good ankle, staring back across the fields at where the golden dragon -Andarna- now stands between Tairn's front legs.
"Excuse me?"
"Violet, are you alright?" the redhead asks, and everyone around me, above me, leans in.
"Tell her," the golden insists.
"Tairn. What am I supposed to-" I think at him.
"Tell the roll-keeper her name," Tairn echoes.
"Violet?" the roll keeper repeats. "Do you need a mender?"
I turn back to the woman and clear my throat. " And Andarnaurram," I whisper.
Her eyes fly wide. "Both dragons?" She squeaks.
I nod.
And all hell breaks loose.
Two dragons. I have...two dragons.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“Violet Sorrengail,' she whispers, moving closer. 'Are you wearing Riorson's flight jacket?'
Liam's head snaps in my direction, curse his stupidly good hearing.
'Why would you say that?' I do a shitty job of feigning shock and shove the sheaths into every available pocket in this thing. All three of them, which are considerably deeper than the ones in my own jacket.
'Oh, I don't know. Because it's huge on you and there are three stars right here?' She taps where there's only one star on her uniform.
Well, shit. Just goes to show that neither of us was thinking clearly.
'It could be any third-year's.' I shrug.
'With a Fourth Wing shield on the shoulder?' She cocks an eyebrow.
'That does limit it a bit,' I agree.
'And a wingleader emblem beneath those stars?' she teases.
'Fine, it's his.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“Violet Sorrengail,'" she whispers, moving closer. 'Are you wearing Riorson's flight jacket?"
Liam's head snaps in my direction, curse his stupidly good hearing.
"Why would you say that?" I do a shitty job of feigning shock and shove the sheaths into every available pocket in this thing. All three of them, which are considerably deeper than the ones in my own jacket.
"Oh, I don't know. Because it's huge on you and there are three stars right here?" She taps where there's only one star on her uniform.
Well, shit. Just goes to show that neither of us was thinking clearly.
"It could be any third-year's." I shrug.
"With a Fourth Wing shield on the shoulder?" She cocks an eyebrow.
"That does limit it a bit," I agree.
"And a wingleader emblem beneath those stars?" she teases.
"Fine, it's his." I whisper quickly.
"I knew it!" Rhi grins. "Tell me it's good."
"I broke his window." I wince and my cheeks heat.
"Like...you threw something at it?" Her brow knits.
"No. As in, lightning struck... a lot. and I shattered his window.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“Violet stayed still as a statue. She hadn't been listening to the last speech of Count Olaf's, knowing it would be full of the usual self-congratulatory nonsense and despicable insults.”
Source: The Bad Beginning
“Violet suddenly felt something in her as her anger and adrenaline pulsed through her body like a raving lunatic. She felt the rage from before, trying to rise above her control. Her hands began to elongate and her nails grew to razor sharp knives. She tried to hold back the intense metamorphosis, but the more she let go, the better she felt.
Millions of coarse hairs sprouted from her skin and covered her in a dense, white fur. Her eyes dilated and contracted with the effort of balancing light. Her face grew into a furry white snout and her limbs grew to immense sizes, filled with muscle. She looked down at herself. She was a beautiful werewolf. A white werewolf! She tried to laugh, but it came out as small barks. She was expecting black fur instead.”
Source: Poet Tongue
“Violet, wake up! You are not in some pre-colonial, pre-internet hellhole. WAKE UP! But no matter how many times she rubbed her eyes or pinched herself to the point of almost bleeding, she was still there, on that same dirt floor, on the same animal pelt, still trying not to look at that one boy.
Was she a captive to these people?
Was she some sort of prisoner?”
Source: Poet Tongue
“Violet was not the heir to the throne of Bodhiasphere.
She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Which was unlucky... for her.”
Source: Adaline and the Sphere
“Violet wasn't the kind of girl you forgot.”
Source: Rival Darling
“Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers.”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“Violet,' Xaden groans against my mouth. The plea in his tone floods my veins with a whole different form of power. Knowing he's just as affected by our attraction as I am is a rush. 'This isn't what you want.'
'It's exactly what I want,' I counter. I want to replace the anger with lust, the death of the day with the pulse-pounding assurance of my own life, and I know he's capable of delivering all that and more. 'You said to do whatever I need.' I arch my back, pressing the tips of my breasts against his chest.
His breathing changes, and there's a war in his eyes that I'm determined to win.
It's time to stop dancing around this unbearable tension and break it.
He leans down, his mouth only inches from mine. 'And I'm telling you that I'm the last thing you need.' The barely leashed growl of his voice rumbles up through his chest, and every nerve ending in my body flares to life.
'Are you suggesting someone else?' My heart races as I chance calling his bluff.
'Fuck no.' The unmistakable flare of jealousy narrows his eyes for a heartbeat before his hips pin mine to the door, and my instant relief at his answer is replaced by a jolt of pure lust. I can see that infamous control of his hovering on the edge, balancing precariously on the point of a knife. All he needs is one. Little. Push. And I'm about to shamelessly shove.
'Good.' I tilt my head up to his and draw his bottom lip between mine, sucking before gently nipping him with my teeth. 'Because I only want you, Xaden.'
The words breach something within him, and he gives.
Finally.
One mouths collide, and the kiss is hot and hard and completely out of our control.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“Violet: "You're an asshole."
Onyx: "Thank you, it's something that took an eternity to perfect.”
Source: Enticed
“Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years?”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“Violet, the Dowager Countess: ‘I have plenty of friends I don’t like.”
“Violet, the Dowager Countess: “I mean, one way or another, everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.”
“Violeta put her head down in her humble way. "I'm certainly able to bray loudly, Bart, dear. But that would attract a lot of attention. I don't like to do that because it is not always a good thing. Besides, braying loudly wastes energy. I don't want to do that unless it's for something very important."
Bart thought that made a lot of sense. The silly goats were always making noises over the littlest things. "Oh, we're being let out now? Buh-uh-uh! Oh, there's a butterfly! Buh-uh-uh!" The lambs and the ewes were only slightly better.
You're right, Violeta. From now on I'm not going to make noise without a good reason, either," said Bart.”
Source: A Bellwether Christmas
“Violets are God's apology for February.”
Source: Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around
“Violets smell like burnt sugar cubes that have been dipped in lemon and velvet.”
Source: A Natural History of the Senses
“Violin for me is a great instrument because you can use it as a rhythmical instrument and also as a melodic instrument. ... You can pretty much do everything with the violin. Sometimes I feel classical music limits the violin.”
“Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.”
“Violinists wear the imprint on their necks with pride
For they are the players of harmony.
Pilgrims, too, wear the imprint on their foreheads with pride
For they are the conductors of unity.
And Lovers? Why, they are made humble by the imprint on their hearts
For they are merely the instruments of rhapsody.”
“Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and bear away the upper part in every consort.”
Source: The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume
“Violists hate it when we violinists crack viola jokes.”
“Viona’s heart throbbed with intense joy. With beating wings it took off and soared across the sky, going higher than it had ever been before; such weighty, powerful feelings it carried, yet it remained as light as a feather. This had to be what it felt like to be in love, she decided. And if it wasn’t, then love would have a lot to live up to.”
Source: Harp and the Lyre: Exposed
“Vions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be.”
Source: Visioneering
“VIP?” Ellie asked. “Ha-ha-ha! I said ‘pee’!”
Source: Lost in London
“VIP Rosé you can have a beer Cuz honey when you gettin money you don't have a care”
“Vipassan meditation is the best way to unlearn old habits of basal ganglia and amygdala, and strengthen the neocortex of the brain.”
Source: Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
“Vipassana arises as you pay awareness to the inner and outer experience unfolding at the present moment. Vipassana is not associated with any rigid formula or methods. Whenever you are aware of your mental or physical feelings like tension in the muscles, movement of limbs, stiffness, heat or cold, you have begun to develop special understanding of realities.”
“Vipassana is fine until it becomes a technique that has many stages and that takes time to develop. That can be okay for people for a while, but then you have to leave the technique behind.”
“Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.”
“Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another.”
“Vipassana meditation is not just seeing the things inside. It is also seeing the seer.”
“Vipassanā isn’t about becoming perfectly calm.
It’s about becoming real — moment by moment.
Grief doesn’t ask you to get over it. Love doesn’t require you to be fearless. Vipassanā says: just notice what’s here… and stay.
That is more than enough.”
Source: Come As You Are: Five Years Later
“Viper will eat viper, and it would serve them both right!”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
“Viper: "The dark wizard and I had a mild disagreement." Dante: "What sort of disagreement?" Viper: "I thought he should be dead and he disagreed.”
“Virakti Vairaagya and Vanvas are continuum along mindset that sets in some evolved people, when betrayed by people or circumstances.”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“Viral Code
…I want my dreams
And I want them now;
Give me my dreams;
Only dreams can cure me;
Everyone deserves dreams
Because no one deserves them”
Source: vViIrRuUsS: I Never Forget
“Viral videos arent just about being funny. Theyre about identity creation.”
“Virality isn't luck. It's not magic. And it's not random. There's a science behind why people talk and share. A recipe. A formula, even.”
“Virality isn’t born, it’s made.”
“Virat Kohli is an ODI batting legend”
“Virat Kohli is the PRINCE of Indian cricket.”
“Virding's First Rule of Programming:
Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Erlang.”
“Virei o rosto e me apressei: os dias futuros eu vivo hoje, agora, já; por favor.”
Source: Asfixia
“Virgil and Horace [were] the severest writers of the severest age.”
“Virgil Donati is clearly the best drummer to come along in the music scene in quite some time. He is extremely unique and has embraced an original sound that has given him a signature that is unmistakable and impossible to duplicate.”
“Virgil has very finely touched upon the female passion for dress and shows, in the character of Camilla; who though she seems to have shaken off all the other weaknesses of her sex, is still described as a woman in this particular.”
Source: The spectator
“Virgil is so exact in every word, that none can be changed but for a worse; nor any one removed from its place, but the harmony will be altered. He pretends sometimes to trip; but it is only to make you think him in danger of a fall, when he is most secure.”
Source: The art of painting of Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy
“Virgil Thomson, the great classical music critic, who was also a composer, but said that criticism was the only antidote he knew to pay publicity. Critics at their best are independent voices people take seriously their responsibility to see as many things as they can see, put them in the widest possible perspective, educate their readers, I really do think of myself as a teacher. Newspapers that don't carry arts criticism at all while not fulfill this function. And probably their arts journalism will be deprived as a result.”
“Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words.”
Source: Virgil: the Eclogues