#chronicle

Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles. ↗

— Anne Rice

#devil #favorite #happen #vampire

I do not judge, I only chronicle. ↗

— John Singer Sargent

#do not judge #i #i do #judge #only

It appears a bold thing to say so when one sees how much many a modern author who knows how to make a skilful use of the Book of Chronicles has to tell about the tabernacle. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#appears #author #bold #book #chronicles

When you don’t know how to fight, then the only future you have is nothing but death. ↗

— Jersey Pugay

#death #inspirational #life #death

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life. ↗

— Dorothy Dunnett

#because #chess #chronicles #design #each

The first profile piece on myself came about after my Rabbi sent information to the Jewish Chronicle on what I was up to. The story was then picked up by one of the nationals and things grew from there. ↗

— Benjamin Cohen

#after #came #chronicle #first #grew

After an awkward pause, Bast extended his hand. Chronicler hesitated for a bare moment before reaching out quickly, as if he were sticking his hand into a fire. Nothing happened, both of them seemed moderately surprised. "Amazing, isn't it?" Kvothe addressed them bitingly. "Five fingers and flesh with blood beneath. One could almost believe that on the other end of that hand lay a person of some sort. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#chronicler #enemies #friends #humor #kvothe

A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#learning #the-chronicles-of-prydain #wisdom #change

How could I explain why I'd acted that way? How could I explain how scary it was, to find out that I needed her so much? Was I supposed to tell her how she'd changed everything? Like how U hadn't even realized how bad I felt until she'd made it better, just by looking at me. Like how I thought she was awesome, bad-ass ninja, and what I hated was the fact that I knew I couldn't protect her, when that's all I wanted to do. How could I explain, without sounding like a complete asshole, that I was so afraid of losing her I pushed her away? I couldn't. ↗

— Susan Bischoff

#chronicles #curfew #heroes #susan #sweet

Kicking a police car? Really?' Caleb shrugged. 'Car offended me. It was sitting right where I wanted to stand. What would you do? ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#dark-hunter #funny #nhumour #funny