#leeds

You'll lose." "What makes you so sure?" "You have no discipline. All you do is tear down shit down. My father is a bastard, but at least he builds things. You turn cities into smoking ruins and blunder about like some hyper child, smashing anything you see. And then you sit here and wonder, 'Why did all of my children turn out to be violet idiots? It's a mystery of nature,'. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#ilona-andrews #kate #magic-bleeds #nature

Science is all about proving theories and understanding the universe. Science folds everything into neat logical well-explained packages. The fey are magical capricious illogical and unexplainable. Science cannot prove the existence of faeries so naturally we do not exist. That type of nonbelief is fatal to faries. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#magic-bleeds #science #nature

You slept with Curran and you didn’t tell me? I’m your best friend.” “It didn’t come up.” “How disappointing for you.” Ha-ha. “That’s not what I meant. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#magic

When you want to take over a city, you have to destroy the illusion of safety it provides. You have to hit the large well-protected establishments, find the powerful people who run them and are viewed as invincible, and kill them. You want to destroy the morale first. Once the people's resolve is gone and everyone is scared for their own skin, the city is yours. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#ilona-andrews #magic-bleeds #safety

I looked at the canine companion. “Me cookies. You stay. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#ilona-andrews

Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me. ↗

— Melanie Brown

#both #brought #class #class family #comes

I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#anytime #bands #english #i #i can

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#dangerous #dangerous thing #good #himself #inwardly

I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed 'Countdown in Leeds,' which was scary. It was sad as he'd been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#deal #filmed #had #him #i

There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#bleeds #country #every #familiar #leads