#mae

It is all we have left to us. And while it is more than I ever dared dream, it is nowhere near enough. ↗

— R.L. LaFevers

#ismae #love #dreams

Putting food under lock and key was one of the great innovations of your culture. No other culture in history has ever put food under lock and key - and putting it there is the cornerstone of your economy.[...] Because if the food wasn't under lock and key, Julie, who would work? ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#food #my-ishmael #philosophy #food

I ain't never seen a creature like that before, she says. He's so smart, he's- More, like a person than a bird? I says. Yeah, she says. That's it. Whatever you do, I says, don't tell him that. I'll never hear the end of it. ↗

— Moira Young

#blood-red-road #crow #funny #maev #nero

Merris, this is Mae and Jamie." Merris unbent slightly. "Alan's young lady, I presume?" Mae actually blushed. "Er - no." "Young Nicholas's, then," Merris said wearily. "What they all see in you, I cannot imagine." Nick leaned against the stall ansd smirked at her. "You'll never know until you try. ↗

— Sarah Rees Brennan

#mae #nick #imagination

In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion. ↗

— Ishmael Beah

#gone #grandmother #inspiration #ishmael #long

One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror. ↗

— Jonathan Stroud

#bartimaeus-trilogy #jonathan-stroud #life

Some say an army of horsemen some an army on foot others say ships laden for war are the fairest things on earth. But I say the fairest sight on this dark earth is the face of the one you love. Nor is it hard to understand: love has humbled the hearts of the proudest queens. And I would rather see you now stepping over my threshold than any soldier greaved in gold or any iron-beaked ship. ↗

— Alison Croggon

#love #maerad #poem #song #love

Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “Egg, I dreamed that I was old. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#maester-aemon #old #dreams

Big don't mean ugly, and thin sho don't mean pretty. If a person wants to be pretty, they gotta walk pretty, talk pretty and act pretty. Can't nobody take pretty from you. ↗

— Daniel Black

#beauty #perfect-peace #pretty #self-worth #beauty

You can not go back. That's why it's hard to choose. You have to make the right choice. As long, as you don't choose, everything remains possible. ↗

— Jaco Van Dormael

#jaco-van-dormael #movie #mr-nobody #possible #sad