Julie Kagawa Quotes

I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending.

Julie Kagawa

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• That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Day
  • Moments
  • Same

• I suggest that, if India is to evolve along nonviolent lines, it will have to decentralize many things. Centralization cannot be sustained and defended without adequate force . . .Centralization as a system is inconsistent with non-violent structure of society.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Society

• A thinking man's greatest happiness is to have fathomed what can be fathomed and to revere in silence what cannot be fathomed.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Thinking
  • Silence

• Mumbling priests swinging stick cans on their chains and even witch doctors conjuring up curses with a well-buried elephant tooth have a better sense of their places in the world. They know this universe is brimming with magic, with life and riddles and ironies. They know that the world might eat them, and no encyclopedia could stop it.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• If he does not sue, he is a drug user, a repeat steroid user, a knowing steroid user. He has to sue for everything that the next 50 years of merchandising is worth.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Drug
  • Worth
  • Steroid

• You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.

  

  Wim Crouwel
  • Work
  • Design

• We be of one blood, ye and I.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Blood
  • One

• I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Elements

• Life was not just a patchy green scruff holding a tenuous position between rock and air; instead, it was a planetary power as important as volcanoes and tides. It was an active force shaping the complex multibillion-year history of the world.

  

  Adam Frank
  • Life
  • World
  • History

• Don't tolerate me as different. Accept me as part of the spectrum of normalcy.

  

  Ann Northrop
  • Accept
  • Tolerate
  • Normalcy

• Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now I was falling, as in a dream slowly, even as I continued to hold the thermometer in my hand, een as I stood with the soles of my slippers on the floor, even as I felt myself solidly contained by the expectant looks of my children. It was the fault of the torture that my husband had inflicted. But enough, I had to tear the pain from memory, I had to sandpaper away the scratches that were damaging my brain.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Memory

• You know, Christianity has its own superstition anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.

  

  Ciaran Hinds
  • Why
  • Lost

• Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• Fairytales are full of impossible tasks.

  

  A. E. Stallings
  • Tasks
  • Full
  • Fairytales

• People seem always actually to know, with a degree of pain that has required the comfort of fairy tales, that when you are dressed in any particular way at all, you are revealed rather than hidden.

  

  Anne Hollander
  • Way
  • Hidden
  • Fairytales

• We all know what tragedy is. "Yes, I'd rather not have any more tragedy, please. I'll have comedy, please." Comedy, in the Greek sense, only means that it has a happy ending.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • Comedy
  • Tragedy
  • Greek

• I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending.

  

  Julie Kagawa
  • Fairytales
  • Happy Endings